ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,694, issued on July 21, was assigned to SteeRetail Co. Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).
"Self-checkout monitoring system, self-checkout monitoring method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Shogo Yamaguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-checkout monitoring system, a self-checkout monitoring method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium capable of monitoring fraud committed by customers at a low cost are provided. A self-checkout monitoring system according to the present disclosure includes: an image-capturing unit configured to capture an image of a plurality of self-checkout machines...