US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 17 for "Artificial intelligence for vehicular drive-through based exchanges" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,591, issued on March 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Artificial intelligence for vehicular drive-through based exchanges" was invented by Logan Bailey (Atlanta), Zachary A. Silverstein (Georgetown, Texas), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas) and Hamid Majdabadi (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for performing an artificial intelligence (AI) based drive-through transaction. A digital image capturing device, in response to a vehicle entering a drive-through, captures a digital image of the vehicle. A computer vision operation is executed on the digital image to anal...