US Patent Issued to Mastercard Asia/Pacific on March 24 for "Mobile device platform for automated visual retail product recognition" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,449, issued on March 24, was assigned to Mastercard Asia/Pacific Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Mobile device platform for automated visual retail product recognition" was invented by Catalin Voss (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for configuring a mobile point-of-sale application to perform automated product-recognition checkout processes. The application includes a convolutional neural network including hidden layer n positioned downstream of remaining hidden layers and downstream of an input segment of the convolutional neural network. The method includes: appending a fine classification arm ope...