US Patent Issued to NCR Voyix on Sept. 29 for "Decentralized self-service checkouts" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,062, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).

"Decentralized self-service checkouts" was invented by Rafael Yepez (Duluth, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shopper is identified upon entering a store and a shopping session is initiated for the shopper. Locations of the shopper within the store are tracked using wireless signals of a shopper's device. Items are scanned and/or weighed at distributed devices that report the item details to a server. The server correlates the shopper's current location to the reporting device and updates details for the shopping session. This continues until the shopper is read...