ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,513, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Non-product detection in smart shopping carts" was invented by Weijian Li (Alexandria, Va.), Yin Wang (Quincy, Mass.) and Shun Miao (Vienna, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes, in part, systems and methods enabling non-product detection using a dual-pathway model. Images can be collected of non-product items, such as by using a shopping cart equipped with a basket facing camera or other mobile apparatus. A registration status of a user can be determined. The product images can be analyzed to determine whether the non-product item matc...