US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS on Feb. 17 for "Triggered item identification" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,445, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS INC. (Durham, N.C.).

"Triggered item identification" was invented by Chia-Wei Li (New Taipei, Taiwan), Susan W. Brosnan (Raleigh, N.C.), Wan-Chen Tsai (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Guei-Syuan Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a computer system and method for motion activated item identification. The computer system includes a memory and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor detects, based on a video of a user, a motion of the user while scanning a barcode of an item and in response to de...