US Patent Issued to Target Brands on July 14 for "Shopping cart with location-based item verification" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,360, issued on July 14, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Shopping cart with location-based item verification" was invented by Todd A. Hagen (Minneapolis), Andrew Wipf (Minneapolis), Donnie Tolbert (Minneapolis) and Arne Wilkin (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a computer-implemented method verifies item placed in physical shopping carts, using location data. An item verification engine receives an item scanned notification indicating that a mobile computing device has scanned an item, an item sensed notification indicating that a cart computing system has sensed the item being adde...