US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS on Feb. 17 for "Artificial intelligence for animal identification and item recommendation" (North Carolina, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,157, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS INC. (Durham, N.C.).

"Artificial intelligence for animal identification and item recommendation" was invented by John Pistone (Cary, N.C.), Philip S. Brown (Cary, N.C.) and Evgeny Shevtsov (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides techniques for improved animal recognition and recommendations. One or more images of an animal associated with a user are captured at a check-in kiosk of an enterprise. A unique identifier of the animal is determined by processing the one or more images using an animal recognition machine learning ...