US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on Jan. 13 for "Transaction settlement device that switches between clerk and customer operating modes for canceling or permitting registration of products" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,100, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Transaction settlement device that switches between clerk and customer operating modes for canceling or permitting registration of products" was invented by Ayumi Sugiyama (Sunto Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transaction settlement device includes a processor that acquires a product code for an item being registered in a sales transaction in a customer operating mode, then checks whether the product code is associated with a sales restriction. A display screen then displays a clerk check screen when the product code has a sales restriction. The proc...