US Patent Issued to ThredUp on Nov. 3 for "Real-time identification of garments in a rail-based garment intake process" (American, Ukrainian, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,083, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ThredUp Inc. (San Francisco).

"Real-time identification of garments in a rail-based garment intake process" was invented by Joshua Mahoney (Union City, Calif.), John Voris (Los Gatos, Calif.), Jonathan Colt (Kula, Hawaii), Keith Hiyama (Nashville, Tenn.), Matthew Wolfe (Redwood, Calif.), Michael Santhanam (San Ramon, Calif.), Pramati Kalwad (Pasadena, Calif.), Vivek Daver (San Ramon, Calif.), Denis Troianov (Kyiv, Ukraine) and Serge Bondar (Tavastila, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A garment marketplace maintains a population of stored garments, and each of those garments is associated wi...