US Patent Issued to 7-Eleven on March 17 for "System and method for selecting an item from a plurality of identified items by filtering out back images of the items" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,783, issued on March 17, was assigned to 7-Eleven Inc. (Irving, Texas).

"System and method for selecting an item from a plurality of identified items by filtering out back images of the items" was invented by Sumedh Vilas Datar (Grapevine, Texas), Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, Texas), Ravi Teja Mulpuri (Sunnyvale, Calif.) 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 first images. ...