ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,160, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for predicting a required number of opened point of sale (POS) stations to accommodate a number of customers" was invented by Karthikeyan Nagarajan (Chennai, India), Alessandro Bay (London) and Anil Ozdemir (Sheffield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for method for predicting a required number of point of sale (POS) stations to accommodate a number of customers are disclosed herein. An example method includes analyzing image data to determine (i) a set of customer data and (ii) a cart occupancy ...