US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS on May 19 for "Associating and configuring a network-attached camera" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,414, issued on May 19, was assigned to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS INC. (Durham, N.C.).

"Associating and configuring a network-attached camera" was invented by Melford L. Miller Jr. (Apex, N.C.), Timothy W. Crockett (Raleigh, N.C.) and Scott M. Graham (Oxford, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques for associating a camera with a POS system, and providing a user access to a stream of the camera's feed. The present disclosure provides an improvement to technology associated with cameras at POS systems. The improved technology includes using barcodes to communicate with a CMS v...