ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,325, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to WINCOR NIXDORF INTERNATIONAL GMBH (Paderborn, Germany).
"Self-service terminal and method" was invented by Oliver Schafer (Schonwalde-Glien, Germany), Alexander Pusch (Berlin) and Alexander Knobloch (Bad Bramstedt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-service terminal (100) can have:-a product-sensing device for sensing a property of a product;-a plurality of acoustic sensors (104a, 104b); and a control device, which is designed for: superposing a signal captured by means of the plurality of acoustic sensors (104a, 104b); determining a voice pattern on the basis of the result of the supe...