US Patent Issued to 7-Eleven on Jan. 27 for "System and method for confirming the identity of an item based on item height" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,683, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to 7-Eleven Inc. (Irving, Texas).

"System and method for confirming the identity of an item based on item height" was invented by Sumedh Vilas Datar (Grapevine, Texas), Crystal Maung (Dallas), Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, Texas) and Nithya Thyagarajan (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device captures an image of a first item and generates a first encoded vector for the image. The device identifies a set of items that have at least one attribute in common with the first item. The device determines the identity of the first item based at least on attributes of the f...