ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,707, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings (Shinagawa-ku, Japan).

"Controlling a point of sale device" was invented by Sharon Freedman (City, N.C.), Amir Najari (Irvine, Calif.), Monsak Chirakansakcharoen (Raleigh, N.C.), Steve Chandler (Dawsonville, Ga.) and Mina Lee (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of controlling a point of sale (POS) device are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method comprises, by a first network node that is operationally coupled to a POS device over a one-to-one connection, with the POS device being operable to receive commands ...