US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on June 17 for "System for registering an item for purchase at a store" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,704, issued on June 17, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"System for registering an item for purchase at a store" was invented by Shohei Yamazaki (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for registering an item for purchase at a store includes a terminal attachable to a shopping cart and a camera attached to the cart and positioned to capture an image of an item stored therein. The terminal includes: an interface circuit connectable to the camera, and a processor configured to: control the camera to capture an image, execute object recognition processing on the image and determine one or more candidat...