US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on Aug. 25 for "Shopping cart with functions to detect commodities placed therein" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,766, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Shopping cart with functions to detect commodities placed therein" was invented by Reiji Sugikami (Yokohama, Japan), Hachirou Sawada (Yokohama, Japan), Katsuya Takeda (Yokohama, Japan), Masahiro Yasuno (Yokohama, Japan), Katsuaki Sakurada (Yokohama, Japan), Teruo Suzuki (Yokohama, Japan), Tomonori Sugiyama (Yokohama, Japan), Hiroki Takeda (Saitama, Japan), Fumio Nakatsukasa (Yokohama, Japan) and Yuna Otani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a shopping cart capable of dealing with registration processing or payment processing when purchasing a lot of com...