ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,564, issued on June 16, was assigned to Intuitivo Tech LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Artificial intelligence-operated autonomous point-of-sale cabinet/refrigerator operation systems and provision of retractable video cameras for these systems (machine learning and computer vision)" was invented by Tomas Manzitti (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Daniel Gomez (Moraverde, Colombia) and Jose Benitez (San Lorenzo, Paraguay).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Stand-alone, consumer-operable point-of-sale system, comprising a cabinet/refrigerator with a retractable arrangement of one or more video cameras that are mounted or embedded in the frame of the cab...