ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,208, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).
"Optical scanning for weights and measures" was invented by Camille van Horne (San Francisco) and Sean Cashin (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online concierge system sends an order associated with a customer to a shopper for fulfillment at a store. The order specifies an ordered amount of an item. The online concierge system receives an image of a receipt for the order from the shopper after fulfillment of the order, applies an image processing algorithm to identify the item in the image of the receipt, and identifies a measured quantity within ...