US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on June 16 for "Point-of-sale device, method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,565, issued on June 16, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Point-of-sale device, method, and program" was invented by Masatoshi Nochi (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point-of-sale device includes a first table on which items before registration can be placed and including a first scale, a second table on which two or more bags for storing items after registration can be set and including a second scale, an input device, a display, and a processor configured to: at a beginning of a transaction, determine a first weight based on a signal from the first scale, and start a registration process, and durin...