ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,101, issued on March 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Systems and method for customized retail environments" was invented by Christopher John Yergan (Seattle), Saurabh Kumar (Seattle) and Anisha Gulabani (Bellevue, Wash.).
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 determine when users are in possession of items when located within and/or exiting the facilities. For instance, a system may use one or more sensors of a facility and of a mobile apparatus to determine interactions with items in a facility. The system may determine conf...