US Patent Issued to Target Brands on June 30 for "Trust-based bag checks in a retail environment" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,773, issued on June 30, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Trust-based bag checks in a retail environment" was invented by Ethan Sommer (Minneapolis) and Christopher Brakob (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology provides for determining whether to audit a shopper in a retail environment based on a trust score assigned to the shopper. A method can include receiving, by a computer system, shopper information including an identifier for the shopper, retrieving bag checkout history data associated with the shopper based on the identifier, which includes the shopper's trust score, determining ...