ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,280, issued on June 2, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Item-identifying carts" was invented by Nicholas McMahon (Bolton, Mass.), Matthew Clark Webster (Lincoln, R.I.), Robert P. Irwin (Natick, Mass.), Jonathan E. Cohn (Acton, Mass.), Jacob A. Siegel (Southborough, Mass.), Charles H. Wood (Boston) and Jeremy Samuel De Bonet (Southborough, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to an item-identifying, mobile cart that may be utilized by a user in a materials handling facility to automatically identify a user operating the cart and items that the user places into a basket of the cart. In add...