US Patent Issued to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions on Oct. 28 for "Retail resource management allocation system" (American, Taiwanese, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,106, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Retail resource management allocation system" was invented by David John Steiner (Durham, N.C.), Craig Compton (Wake Forest, N.C.), Daniel Hunt (Wake Forest, N.C.), Wan-Chen Tsai (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Roberto Cabral Frias (Jalisco, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure utilizes excess processing capacity of a point of sale (POS) system by dynamically managing assigned tasks based on an expected activity of an individual. A resource management system can use image data and a trained neural network to analyzes aspec...