US Patent Issued to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings on March 3 for "Inventory characterization and identification system" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,027, issued on March 3, was assigned to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corp. (Tokyo).

"Inventory characterization and identification system" was invented by Elizabeth C. Kwon (Carthage, N.C.), Jingtong E (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Maxwell Grayson Owens (Fuquay-Varina, N.C.) and Jessica Snead (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for identifying contents of a shipping container that holds a set of unidentified inventory items. To characterize the identity of the unidentified inventory items, one or more scans may be performed on shipping container to obtain container information, whi...