US Patent Issued to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions on July 29 for "Blockchain registered container utilization at point of sale" (North Carolina, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,859, issued on July 29, was assigned to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Blockchain registered container utilization at point of sale" was invented by Benjamin Duan-Porter (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Sarath Babu Raja Surya (Raleigh, N.C.), Phillip Monkowski (Apex, N.C.), Ping Cherng Lin (Durham, N.C.) and John Wendler (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of verifying utilization of a blockchain registered container at POS are presented. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is performed by a POS system having a sensing device operable to sense an identifier specific to a container config...