US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Sept. 22 for "Management system for automatic determination of anomaly behavior for user of a smart shopping cart" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,706, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Maplebear Inc (San Francisco).

"Management system for automatic determination of anomaly behavior for user of a smart shopping cart" was invented by Ruoruo Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Christopher Benjamin (Larchmont, N.Y.), Michael Sandare (New York), Lin Gao (Miami) and Graham Beauregard (Burlington, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system for predicting an anomaly behavior (fraudulent behavior) for a user of a smart shopping cart (physical receptacle). The computer system gathers data associated with a physical activity of the user, the user being physically present at a lo...