US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on Jan. 13 for "Shopping support apparatus, shopping cart, and method for shopping support" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,269, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Shopping support apparatus, shopping cart, and method for shopping support" was invented by Atsushi Otake (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a shopping support apparatus for a retail store includes a display screen and a control unit. The control unit causes a store map to be displayed on the display screen and acquires a commodity code for a commodity for sale in the store to register the commodity corresponding to the acquired commodity code in a sales transaction. The sales transaction list is displayed on the displ...