US Patent Issued to Target Brands on July 21 for "Verification of items placed in physical shopping cart" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,759, issued on July 21, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Verification of items placed in physical shopping cart" 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 method performed by data processing apparatuses includes receiving, by an item verification engine, a scan notification indicating that a mobile computing device has scanned an item. In response to receiving the scan notification, the item verification engine provides an instruction for a cart computing system to activat...