US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on April 14 for "Sales transaction processing system, sales transaction processing apparatus, and method performed by sales transaction processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,677, issued on April 14, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Sales transaction processing system, sales transaction processing apparatus, and method performed by sales transaction processing apparatus" was invented by Haruki Tsuboi (Numazu Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes terminals installed in a store and configured to register an item in a transaction, first devices for executing the transaction, and an apparatus including: an interface connectable to the terminals and devices, a memory that stores first data that associates each terminal with one first device, and a processor configured to: ...