US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Dec. 9 for "Relating environmental effects to user interactions using automated shopping carts" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,893, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Relating environmental effects to user interactions using automated shopping carts" was invented by Leho Nigul (Aurora, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated checkout system applies environmental effects to physical regions within a store. The automated checkout system logs the environmental effect, a time the environmental effect was applied, and the physical region to which the environmental effect was applied. The automated checkout system detects an interaction event and logs a time associated with the interaction event. The automated checkout sys...