US Patent Issued to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions on Aug. 25 for "Carbon footprint identification system" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,254, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Carbon footprint identification system" was invented by Stacy Arrington (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of obtaining carbon footprint information of items checked out by a POS device are presented. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is performed by a POS device having a sensing device operable to sense an identifier specific to a container configured to transport items after checkout. The POS device is coupled to a blockchain network that includes network nodes that are collectively configured to op...