US Patent Issued to NCR Voyix on June 30 for "Determining item quantity at checkout" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,774, issued on June 30, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).

"Determining item quantity at checkout" was invented by Judea Britt (Atlanta), Ajay Gill (Atlanta), Adam Gunn (Atlanta), Vani Gupta (Atlanta), Kip Oliver Morgan (Atlanta) and Lyndon Arthur Puzon (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A depth image of items on a scale are captured. Depth information for the depth image is processed to produce a three-dimensional (3D) map of the depth information. The items are identified as blobs within the 3D map. A plane is generated and projected into the 3D map and each separate blob that intersects the plane is counted to determi...