ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,142, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).
"Integration of disparate item scanning for checkouts" was invented by Kip Oliver Morgan (Atlanta), Gina Torcivia Bennett (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Jerry Steven Massey (Lawrenceville, Ga.), John Kennedy (Atlanta), Julia Anne Ogilvy (Cumming, Ga.), Amit Acharya (Frisco, Texas) and Eric Xavier Schoch (McKinney, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unified item recognition driver is presented. The driver manages a plurality of disparate item scanning capable peripheral devices of a transaction terminal and computer vision item recognition applications on behalf of a transa...