US Patent Issued to 7-Eleven on April 14 for "System and method for item identification using container-based classification" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,938, issued on April 14, was assigned to 7-Eleven Inc. (Irving, Texas).

"System and method for item identification using container-based classification" was invented by Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, Texas), Sumedh Vilas Datar (Grapevine, Texas) and Crystal Maung (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device detects a triggering event that corresponds to a placement of an item on a platform. In response, the device captures an image of the item and generates a first encoded vector for the image. The first encoded vector describes one or more attributes of the item. The device determines that the item is associated with...