US Patent Issued to Gatekeeper Systems on Aug. 25 for "Anti-theft system configured to reduce false positives" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,672, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Gatekeeper Systems Inc. (Foothill Ranch, Calif.).

"Anti-theft system configured to reduce false positives" was invented by Narayanan V. Ramanathan (Lake Forest, Calif.), Scott J. Carter (Seal Beach, Calif.), Stephen E. Hannah (Placentia, Calif.), Jesse M. James (Santa Ana, Calif.), Jack L. Johnson (San Diego) and Robert M. Harling (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring shopping baskets (e.g., baskets on human-propelled carts, motorized carts, or hand-carried baskets) can include a computer vision unit that can image a surveillance region (e.g., an exit to a store), de...