US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS on May 26 for "Weight-based location tracking" (North Carolina, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,691, issued on May 26, was assigned to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS INC. (Durham, N.C.).

"Weight-based location tracking" was invented by Kevin H. Vorhees (Raleigh, N.C.), Deepshika G. Kovvali (Morrisville, N.C.), Gregory M. Hardy (Greensboro, N.C.), Bradley S. Kerr (Raleigh, N.C.) and Shanmukha Ram Peri (Clemson, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for weight-based location tracking. In one embodiment, the techniques involve retrieving, via an item tracker, item data of each item in a transaction at a self-checkout system, wherein the item data includes incremental weight measurements, location data, and ...