US Patent Issued to Maplebear on June 2 for "Detecting items in a shopping cart based on location of shopping cart" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,324, issued on June 2, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Detecting items in a shopping cart based on location of shopping cart" was invented by Lin Gao (Miami), Yilin Huang (Shanghai), Shiyuan Yang (Shanghai), Xiaofei Zhou (Shanghai), Xiao Zhou (Shanghai) and Qunwei Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated checkout system accesses an image of an item inside a shopping cart and a location of the shopping cart within a store. The automated checkout system identifies a set of candidate items located within a threshold distance of the location of the shopping cart based on an item map. The item map describe...