US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS on March 3 for "Inventory integrity system" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,050, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS INC. (Durham, N.C.).

"Inventory integrity system" was invented by Susan W. Brosnan (Raleigh, N.C.), Jessica Snead (Cary, N.C.), Patricia Hogan (Raleigh, N.C.) and Daniel R. Goins (Wake Forest, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure utilizes image data analysis to improve the accuracy and integrity of item characteristic information in a database. During point-of-sale (POS) transactions, a security exception may be triggered when an item's stored characteristic information, such as weight or dimensions, is found to be inaccurate or missing. B...