US Patent Issued to 7-Eleven on March 17 for "System and method for identifying moved items on a platform during item identification" (Texas, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,665, issued on March 17, was assigned to 7-Eleven Inc. (Irving, Texas).

"System and method for identifying moved items on a platform during item identification" was invented by Xinan Wang (McKinney, Texas), Kyle J Dalal (Coppell, Texas), Fahad Mirza (Arlington, Texas), Jon Andrew Crain (Mechanicsburg, Pa.) and Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to detecting a first triggering event corresponding to placement of a first item on a platform, a plurality of first images are captured of the first item and a plurality of cropped first images are generated based on the first images. ...