US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Aug. 18 for "Training a model to identify items based on image data and load curve data" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,482, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Training a model to identify items based on image data and load curve data" was invented by Yilin Huang (Shanghai), Ganglu Wu (Hangzhou City, China), Xiao Zhou (Shanghai), Youming Luo (Shanghai) and Shiyuan Yang (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart shopping cart includes internally facing cameras and an integrated scale to identify objects that are placed in the cart. To avoid unnecessary processing of images that are irrelevant, and thereby save battery life, the cart uses the scale to detect when an object is placed in the cart. The cart o...