ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,578, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Leav Inc. (Montreal).
"Contactless checkout system with theft detection" was invented by Kevin Malgarini (Montreal), Olivier Roy (Montreal), Evgeny Grachev (Montreal), Charles-etienne Simard (Montreal) and Ghazaleh Torabi (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contactless checkout system with theft detection, and related methods and devices. An inventory of an electronic shopping cart of a user in a retail environment and a virtual inventory of a physical shopping container in possession of the user in the retail environment are maintained. Actions performed by the user, such as placing or ...