US Patent Issued to Synchrony Bank on Aug. 18 for "Method of applying for credit at a self-checkout" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,481, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Synchrony Bank (Stamford, Conn.).

"Method of applying for credit at a self-checkout" was invented by Jake Miller (Stamford, Conn.), Joseph Nelly (Stamford, Conn.), Jared King (Stamford, Conn.), Kaeli Stichler (Stamford, Conn.), Shawn Dole (Stamford, Conn.), Timothy Christensen (Stamford, Conn.), Jennifer Muller (Stamford, Conn.), Taylor Young (Stamford, Conn.), Seamus Sullivan (Stamford, Conn.) and Prakash Kothandapani (Stamford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by at least one computing device. The method includes receiving a credit request from a self-checkout device be...