ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,032, issued on April 7, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).
"Restricted item eligibility control at ambient commerce premises" was invented by Milos Dunjic (Oakville, Canada), David Samuel Tax (Toronto), Jonathan Joseph Prendergast (West Chester, Pa.), Christopher Mark Jones (Villa Nova, Pa.), Asad Joheb (Toronto) and Thomas Osman Kelly (Wenonah, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ambient commerce system may include a sensor at an ambient commerce premises, a processor coupled to the one or more sensors, a memory coupled to the processor. The memory may store processor-executable instructions which cause the proc...