ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,535, issued on June 23, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).
"Point-of-sale system" was invented by Naotake Hiramatsu (Tokyo) and Tsuyoshi Gotanda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point-of-sale system includes a registration device configured to register items for a transaction, a plurality of payment devices with which payment for the transaction can be made, and an imaging device including a camera configured to capture images in an area where the registration device and the payment devices are located and a processor that is configured to determine, based on the images captured by the camera, one of the plurality of pa...