US Patent Issued to NCR Voyix on April 7 for "Intelligent vision checkout system and method providing enhanced user interaction" (North Carolina, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,259, issued on April 7, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).

"Intelligent vision checkout system and method providing enhanced user interaction" was invented by Wuchieh James Jong (Raleigh, N.C.), Gina Torcivia Bennett (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Kip Oliver Morgan (Atlanta) and Angelique Dale (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user is prompted to begin a transaction by presenting a welcome message on a display. Output images from a set of cameras are forwarded to a machine learning model trained to identify items on a checkout tray during the transaction once no movement is detected on the checkout tray. An identification of a...