US Patent Issued to NCR Voyix on March 17 for "Self-checkout barcode prediction" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,869, issued on March 17, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).

"Self-checkout barcode prediction" was invented by Carl Fernandes (Barebhat, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and system for predicting complete barcodes from damaged or partially unreadable barcodes at self-checkout (SCO) terminals. A hybrid machine learning architecture is utilized that combines sequence processing for partial barcode data with metadata-based prediction using product attributes such as weight and category information. When a damaged barcode is scanned, available data is extracted and combined with contextual information, and the most l...