ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,334, issued on July 14, was assigned to Research & Business Foundation SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Device and method for detecting on product in automatic checkout system, storage medium storing instructions to perform method for detecting on product in automatic checkout system" was invented by Jae Wook Jeon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Long Hoang Pham (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyungmin Jeon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Duong Nguyen Ngoc Tran (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Huy-Hung Nguyen (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for detecting a product in an automatic checkout system...