US Patent Issued to 7-Eleven on March 3 for "System and method for identifying an item based on interaction history of a user" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,159, issued on March 3, was assigned to 7-Eleven Inc. (Irving, Texas).

"System and method for identifying an item based on interaction history of a user" was invented by Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, Texas) and Sumedh Vilas Datar (Grapevine, 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. An item identifier associated with the first item is identified based on the first images and assigned to the first item. In response to detecting a second triggering event correspo...