ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,435, issued on Feb. 17.
"Electric motor shopping cart" was invented by Anas Afaneh (Etobicoke, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motorized shopping cart is disclosed herein and includes a shopping cart, a wheel assembly attached to the shopping cart, a drive assembly, accelerator and brake assembly in communication with the wheel assembly, a GPS module, a direction sensing module, a feedback module, a controller and in some embodiments, a collision module. The GPS module detects a location of the shopping cart relative to one or more boundaries and the direction sensing module detects a direction of travel of the shopping cart ...