ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,664, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Automated checkout system with video and RFID" was invented by Akash Modi (Bengaluru, India), Kushagra Srivastava (Bellevue, Wash.), Sandipan Saha (Bangalore, India), Chirag Dilip Chauhan (Mumbai, India), Srihari Manoharan (Bellevue, Wash.), Amit Dekate (Medina, Wash.), Robert Jerome Colwill (Bainbridge Island, Wash.) and Tarun Kumar Garg (Jurhera, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems for enabling a just-walk-out (JWO) facility in which users may enter the facility, physically pick one or more items, and walk out of the faci...