US Patent Issued to NCR Voyix on Jan. 20 for "Fraudulent activity detection at a barcode scanner by verifying visual signatures" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,699, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).

"Fraudulent activity detection at a barcode scanner by verifying visual signatures" was invented by Joshua Migdal (Wayland, Mass.) and Malay Kundu (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for detecting a fraudulent activity at a barcode scanner is disclosed. The method issues an alert when the fraudulent activity is confirmed by comparing the visual signature of the item being transacted over the checkout terminal to the model visual signature. The model visual signature is obtained by averaging the collection of visual signature of the item ...