ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,669, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS INC. (Durham, N.C.).

"Self-checkout security validation control" was invented by Jeremy V. Patrick (Cary, N.C.), Andrei Khaitas (McKinney, Texas), Yeshai Bouskila (Plano, Texas) and Johanna E. Hinkle (South Bend, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for security validation control in a self-checkout system are provided. The method includes retrieving system-level transaction data receiving identity information related to a user, retrieving user-specific transaction data using the identity information, determining one or more validation parame...