US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on May 5 for "Automated food selection using hyperspectral sensing" (Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,950, issued on May 5, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Automated food selection using hyperspectral sensing" was invented by James Benjamin Edwards (Fayetteville, Ark.) and Brian C. Roth (Bentonville, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solution for automated food selection includes: an order processing component operable to receive an order identifying an item; a selection component comprising: a first hyperspectral sensor operable to sense a reflection from the item and produce a sensor output based at least on the reflection; and a picking mechanism; a control component operable to: based at least on identi...