US Patent Issued to NCR Voyix on Aug. 18 for "Smart cart security with auditing" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,285, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).

"Smart cart security with auditing" was invented by Kip Oliver Morgan (Atlanta), Gina Torcivia Bennett (Lawrenceville, Ga.) and Jay Arcement (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and a system for automated smart cart security and auditing are provided. A cart includes one or more cameras mounted thereon to monitor items placed in the cart. The system performs local item recognition on the items placed in the cart by a mobile shopping device, focusing particularly on high-value items to prevent shrink. When discrepancies are detected between scanned items and...