Patents by Inventor Catherine Mengin

Catherine Mengin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Reconfigurable checkout station
    Patent number: 9275382
    Abstract: A checkout station for a retail store is configurable between an employee-assisted mode and a self-service mode. In the employee-assisted mode, the checkout station is positioned on a checkout lane and a merchant operates the checkout station to checkout a customer from the store. In the self-service mode, the checkout station is positioned on the opposite side of the checkout lane and the customer performs the checkout functions with little or no help from the merchant. A motor in the checkout station is controlled to move the entire checkout station laterally across the checkout lane in response to receiving reconfiguration commands from the merchant. The reconfiguration commands may also control the checkout station to raise or lower its vertical height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Thierry Dubois, Pierre Luguern, Catherine Mengin
  • Reconfigurable Checkout Station
    Publication number: 20160026985
    Abstract: A checkout station for a retail store is configurable between an employee-assisted mode and a self-service mode. In the employee-assisted mode, the checkout station is positioned on a checkout lane and a merchant operates the checkout station to checkout a customer from the store. In the self-service mode, the checkout station is positioned on the opposite side of the checkout lane and the customer performs the checkout functions with little or no help from the merchant. A motor in the checkout station is controlled to move the entire checkout station laterally across the checkout lane in response to receiving reconfiguration commands from the merchant. The reconfiguration commands may also control the checkout station to raise or lower its vertical height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Thierry Dubois, Pierre Luguern, Catherine Mengin
  • Method and apparatus for secure sale of electronic tickets
    Publication number: 20020095383
    Abstract: A method (and apparatus) for guaranteeing authenticity of an object, includes providing a sample of material obtainable only by at least one of chemical and physical processes such that the sample is random and not reproducible, associating a number reproducibly to the sample by using a specific reader, and forming at least one coded version of the number. The at least one coded version is obtained by a public key encryption, and the version is recorded into an area of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Catherine Mengin, Marco Martens, Howard Edward Sachar, Charles Philippe Tresser