ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,957, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to RadiusAI Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Automatic item identification during assisted checkout based on visual features" was invented by Abhinav Yarlagadda (Woodinville, Wash.), Enis Dengi (Tempe, Ariz.), Sai Krishna Bashetty (Bellevue, Wash.), Rahul Santhosh Kumar Varma (Tempe, Ariz.), Daniel King (Seattle), Kamalesh Kalirathinam (Tempe, Ariz.), Sri Priyanka Madduluri (Arlington, Va.) and Sharan Raja (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include extracting item parameters from images of items positioned at a POS system. Item parameters associated with each item when mappe...