US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on Sept. 9 for "Systems and methods for managing self check out services" (Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,163, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for managing self check out services" was invented by Christopher Joseph Hendrick (Rogers, Ark.), David Martin Nelms (Rogers, Ark.) and Mindy Dawn Rector (Bentonville, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some systems and methods are directed to a device agnostic architecture configured to control and/or manage the interactions between front end store systems (e.g., self checkout (SCO) systems) for capturing purchase items and backend systems (e.g., point of sale (POS) subsystems) for completing purchases. The device agnostic architec...