ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,715, issued on May 13, was assigned to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS INC. (Durham, N.C.).
"Transaction management system" was invented by Susan W. Brosnan (Raleigh, N.C.), Jessica Snead (Cary, N.C.), Patricia Hogan (Raleigh, N.C.) and Daniel Robert Goins (Wake Forest, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by a Point of Sale (PoS) system. The method includes performing one or more PoS tasks in a retail environment. In addition, the method includes detecting that the transaction management system will be occupied with performing one or more PoS tasks for more than a threshold amount of time. The method further in...