US Patent Issued to Maplebear on May 12 for "Self-checkout anti-theft vehicle systems and methods" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,237, issued on May 12, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Self-checkout anti-theft vehicle systems and methods" was invented by Lin Gao (Miami), Yilin Huang (Shanghai), Shiyuan Yang (Shanghai) and Ahmed Beshry (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein relates to a self-checkout anti-theft vehicle system, comprising: a self-checkout vehicle having a plurality of sensors and components implemented thereon, the self-checkout vehicle being used by shoppers for storing selected merchandises in a retail environment; and a centralized computing device. The centralized computing device is configured to: obtain in...