US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Nov. 3 for "Automated identification of items placed in a cart and recommendations based on same" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,089, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Automated identification of items placed in a cart and recommendations based on same" was invented by Brent Scheibelhut (Toronto), Naval Shah (Toronto), Mark Oberemk (Toronto), Madeline Mesard (New York) and Akshay Bagai (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart shopping cart may utilize cameras and/or load sensors to provide capacity-informed recommendations. The cameras are positioned facing at least a first basket of the smart shopping cart and configured to capture image data during a visit at a retailer location. The load sensors are configured to measu...