US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 31 for "Modeling and detecting shopping events using visual images and machine learning" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,096, issued on March 31, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Modeling and detecting shopping events using visual images and machine learning" was invented by Michael Dillon (Seattle), Gerard Guy Medioni (Seattle) and Ali Rahimi (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cameras installed at a facility capture images over periods of time and detect features such as locations of hands, heads or other body parts within the images. Time series of data regarding such features are provided to machine learning systems to determine whether an event such as a taking or a return of the item is depicted within the images...