US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 26 for "Product identification for self-checkout in customized retail environments" (Massachusetts, California, Washington, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,738, issued on May 26, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Product identification for self-checkout in customized retail environments" was invented by Sreemanananth Sadanand (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Meng Sun (Palo Alto, Calif.), Dominic Roberts (Seattle), Shun Miao (Vienna, Va.), Xiang Ma (Lexington, Mass.), Gregory Donald Hager (Springfield, Va.) and Yi-Han Chen (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems and techniques for recognizing, or identifying, produce items being purchased at a self-checkout device. The self-checkout device may use a produce-recognition system that uses image-based ...