US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS on May 26 for "Customer assistance at self checkouts using computer vision" (Texas, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,017, issued on May 26, was assigned to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS INC. (Durham, N.C.).

"Customer assistance at self checkouts using computer vision" was invented by Evgeny Shevtsov (Plano, Texas), Andrei Khaitas (McKinney, Texas), Srija Ganguly (Raleigh, N.C.) and Philip S. Brown (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques relating to using machine learning (ML) with a point of sale (POS) system. These techniques include identifying one or more images, captured at a POS system, of one or more items for purchase. The techniques further include predicting a checkout issue relating to the one or more items for purchase, ...