US Patent Issued to 7-Eleven on March 17 for "System and method for search space reduction for identifying an item" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,666, issued on March 17, was assigned to 7-Eleven Inc. (Irving, Texas).

"System and method for search space reduction for identifying an 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 are captured of the first item and a plurality of cropped images are generated based on the images. For each cropped image, a first encoded vector is generated and compared to encoded vectors in ...