US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on Oct. 14 for "Checkout terminal" (California, Arkansas, Michigan, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,278, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Checkout terminal" was invented by Darrell Whitelaw (Pacific Palisades, Calif.), Andrew J. Grignon (Roseville, Calif.), Kristine L. Pachuta (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Michael C. Cervantes (San Francisco), Jae Y. Lew (Mill Valley, Calif.), Stephen S. Hadinger (Berkeley, Calif.), Brittany N. Leek (Waterford, Mich.), William J. Yergin (San Jose, Calif.), Wei-Meng Chee (Belmont, Calif.) and John C. Crecelius Jr. (Springdale, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A checkout terminal is provided. The checkout terminal comprises a camera array, a display device, a weight ...