ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,863, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS INC. (Durham, N.C.).
"Self-checkout workflow management system" was invented by Judith L. Atallah (Raleigh, N.C.), Charles Ray Kirk (Raleigh, N.C.), Evgeny Shevtsov (Plano, Texas) and Michelle M. Crompton (Raleigh, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to reconfigure self-checkout kiosks based on workflow interaction metrics. A measure of interaction is determined for at least a portion of a workflow during a transaction at a self-checkout kiosk. The self-checkout kiosk is configured to output one or more communications via one or more graphical user i...