US Patent Issued to Wincor Nixdorf International on Jan. 27 for "Self-service checkout terminal, and method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,882, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH (Paderborn, Germany).

"Self-service checkout terminal, and method" was invented by Sebastian Engelnkemper (Langenberg, Germany), Alexander Knobloch (Paderborn, Germany) and Jonathan Stieber (Paderborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with various embodiments, a self-service checkout terminal can comprise: an image capture device configured to capture image data of a capture region; a product capture device for capturing a product identifier of a product in the capture region when the product is presented to the product capture device; a con...