US Patent Issued to 7-Eleven on June 2 for "System and method for identifying an item based on an amount of image information in an image of the item" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,285, issued on June 2, was assigned to 7-Eleven Inc. (Irving, Texas).

"System and method for identifying an item based on an amount of image information in an image of the item" was invented by Sumedh Vilas Datar (Grapevine, Texas), Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, Texas) and Shashipal Reddy Masini (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to detecting a triggering event corresponding to placement of a first item on a platform, a plurality of images of the first item are captured. For each image of the first item, a cropped image is generated including a bounding box around the first item depicted in the imag...