US Patent Issued to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions on Sept. 29 for "Item detection point of sale system" (Ukrainian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,381, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Item detection point of sale system" was invented by Serhii Maksymenko (Kharkov, Ukraine), Evgeny Shevtsov (Plano, Texas), Andrei Khaitas (McKinney, Texas) and Dmytro Kalashnikov (Kharkov, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of performing item detection at point of sale are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is performed by a POS system device having a terminal station apparatus and a bagging station apparatus. The terminal station apparatus includes an optical scanner. The bagging station apparatus in...