ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,768, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Mobile item identifying apparatus" was invented by Jacob A. Siegel (Southborough, Mass.), Nicholas Franklin (Northborough, Mass.), Joseph Harkness (Westford, Mass.), Jonathan David Jones (Arlington, Va.), Keru Xia (Malden, Mass.) and Andrew Vincent Wolff (Norfolk, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart shopping cart may include a frame with wheels for riding along a support surface that nests with one or more other smart shopping carts. The smart shopping cart includes a basket coupled to a frame through a scale module connected adjacent to a first end...