ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,277, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Inc. (Durham, N.C.).
"Activity detection at point of sale" was invented by Philip Brown (Apex, N.C.), Evgeny Shevtsov (Plano, Texas), Johanna Hinkle (South Bend, Ind.) and Viktor Ivakhno (Cary, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of detecting activity at point of sale are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is performed by a POS system having an optical sensor device, an optical scanner device and a load sensor device. The optical sensor device has a field of view that includes a first region about the POS system and the load sen...