US Patent Issued to NCR Voyix on Sept. 29 for "Item type identification for checkout verification" (Georgia, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,380, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).

"Item type identification for checkout verification" was invented by German Capuano (Tucker, Ga.) and Matthew K. Farrow (Canton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During a transaction at a terminal, an operator of a terminal indicates that an item is a produce item. An image of the item is provided as input to a machine learning model which determines whether the item is a consumer packaged good (CPG) item type or a produce item (e.g., a non-CPG item type). When the model determines the item is a CPG item type, the transaction is suspended for an audit of the ite...