US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS on Aug. 18 for "Item recognition enhancements" (Arkansas, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,755, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS INC. (Durham, N.C.).

"Item recognition enhancements" was invented by Terry A. Lochner (Elgin, S.C.) and Soraya D. Brewer (West Fork, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a system and method for identifying an item. The system includes a camera that captures a first image of a first item being purchased by a user, a memory, and a processor. The processor determines, based on the first image, a first probability for a first identity of the first item and a second probability for a second identity of the first item and in response t...