Patent ID: 6788205
Filing Date: 2004-09-07
Classification: A47F,G07G,G08B

Abstract:
A system for verifying successful deactivation of an EAS tag at a self-checkout station comprising:an EAS tag deactivator associated with a self-checkout station for deactivating an EAS tag attached to an article scanned at the s elf-checkout station; an EAS tag interrogator associated with a bag well of the checkout station, the EAS tag interrogator generating an electrical checkout disable signal in response to detection of the EAS tag in the bag well by the EAS tag interrogator so that the checkout process is suspended until the EAS tag has been completely deactivated or withdrawn from the checkout process; and a processor for receiving the generated checkout disable signal and disabling a scanner so that additional articles may not be submitted for checkout to disable the checkout process until the EAS tag is completely deactivated or the article to which the EAS tag is attached is withdrawn from the checkout process.