ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,090, issued on Aug. 26.
"System for detecting and classifying the handling of goods displayed in retails shops" was invented by Paola Castagno (Turin, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This patent concerns a system for tracking and identifying goods at points of sale. Particularly it concerns a physical system and a method that can be conveniently used to recognize whether the goods displayed at a point of sale have been manipulated and if so identify with good approximation by means of an expert system the possible type of manipulation that has occurred. That system allows, thanks to this evaluation, to activate, where appropriat...