US Patent Issued to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions on Jan. 20 for "Activity detection at point of sale" (American, Ukrainian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,669, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Activity detection at point of sale" was invented by Serhii Maksymenko (Kharkov, Ukraine) and Evgeny Shevtsov (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of detecting activity at point of sale are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is performed by a POS system having first and optical scanner devices. The optical sensor device is positioned on or about the POS system with a field of view directed towards a first spatial region of the POS system and operable to capture successive images. The optical scanner...