ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,883, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Point-of-sale terminal, method, and medium" was invented by Yusuke Taya (Izunokuni Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point-of-sale terminal attachable to a shopping cart, includes an interface connected to an imaging device, an input device, and a processor configured to: control the imaging device to capture an image and generate image data based on the captured image, perform object recognition on the image data, and perform an automatic registration process for automatically registering an item when the item is identified by the recognition. The proc...