US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on April 7 for "Customized retail environments" (Massachusetts, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,006, issued on April 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Customized retail environments" was invented by Jonathan E. Cohn (Acton, Mass.), Ejaz Ahmed (Marlborough, Mass.) and Gregory Hager (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes, in part, systems for enabling facilities to implement techniques to identify items using weight sensors. For instance, a first weight sensor may determine a first weight associated with a first item, where the first item is priced per unit weight. The first weight sensor may be located within an inventory location associated with the item or a station that weigh...