ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,679, issued on April 14.
"Multi-functional shopping cart, system, and method for shopping" was invented by Avadh Kishor Chouksey (Jabalpur, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-functional shopping cart (100) for shopping includes a main storage (102) adapted for storage of items; a top cover (110) disposed on top of, and fixedly coupled to the main storage; a gate (112) provided at the main storage; a crane (130) provided within the main storage and configured to pick up items from the gate and move them to a designated location; an optical device (122) configured to detect the items. The shopping cart further includes a com...