US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS on March 3 for "Stacked unit detection system" (North Carolina, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,089, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS INC. (Durham, N.C.).

"Stacked unit detection system" was invented by Timothy W. Crockett (Raleigh, N.C.) and Charles M. Kurtz (Jacksonville Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of implementing a detection sequence for determining positions of control boxes within a stack are provided. In one aspect, a system includes control boxes each including a controller having a plurality of ports, a magnetic switch, and a magnet. The control boxes are arranged in a stack so that, for each adjacent pair of control boxes, the magnetic switch of one...