US Patent Issued to 7-Eleven on March 31 for "System and method for aggregating metadata for item identification using digital image processing" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,074, issued on March 31, was assigned to 7-Eleven Inc. (Irving, Texas).

"System and method for aggregating metadata for item identification using digital image processing" was invented by Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, Texas), Tejas Pradip Rode (Coppell, Texas), Crystal Maung (Dallas) and Shahmeer Ali Mirza (Celina, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for identifying items based on aggregated metadata obtains images of an item. The system extracts a set of features from images of the item. The system identifies a first value of a first feature associated with a first image of the item. The system identifies a s...