US Patent Issued to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions on March 17 for "Measurement information processing mode switching system" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,529, issued on March 17, was assigned to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Measurement information processing mode switching system" was invented by Brad M. Johnson (Raleigh, N.C.), David J. Steiner (Durham, N.C.), Suzanne M. Bleakley (Cary, N.C.) and William L. Dungan (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of automatically switching measurement information processing modes related to a self-checkout kiosk. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is performed by an electronic device that includes processing circuitry. The method may include detecting, using object recognition, at least one...