ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,932, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).

"System and method for calibrating camera position in a computer vision-based self-service checkout terminal" was invented by Rafael Yepez (Duluth, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for camera position calibration in a terminal. A camera has a predefined expected orientation with respect to a scan zone for the terminal such that a target zone (the scan zone or an outline thereof) appears in a predefined position within a field of view of the camera. The video output signal from the camera is combined by a processor with an overlay image file. The ...