US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on Oct. 6 for "Systems and methods for detecting a mis-scan of an item for purchase" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,797, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for detecting a mis-scan of an item for purchase" was invented by Dhanashree Palande (Seattle), Mirko A. Arnold (Dublin), Jason Nichols (New Providence, N.J.), Niyati Lalit Shah (Jersey City, N.J.), Jadran Sirotkovic (Dublin) and Peter M. Terlecky (Yonkers, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to detecting a mis-scan of an item. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for detecting a mis-scan of an item for purchase comprising a checkout station; a first stag...