US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS on Dec. 2 for "Item detection and cart validation system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,662, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS INC. (Durham, N.C.).

"Item detection and cart validation system" was invented by Yeshai Bouskila (Plano, Texas) and Yevgeni Tsirulnik (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides techniques for tracking and verifying items that are scanned multiple times in a self-checkout system. A plurality of inputs indicating more than one scan of an item are received at a self-checkout machine. An image of a bagging area is captured. A CNN is trained to recognize the item based on a training dataset and a selected training algorithm. One or m...