ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,048, issued on March 3, was assigned to Kooick Inc. (New York).
"Hardware system for identifying grab- and-go transactions in a cashierless store" was invented by Davi Geiger (Old Greenwich, Conn.) and Carlos Henrique Cavalcanti Correa (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for detecting a commercial transaction through physical interactions with products, the system comprising a frame that is placed within a product display unit. The frame includes a shelf, at least one camera, a weight sensor, and display screens. The system further comprises a computing device communicatively connected to the fr...