US Patent Issued to 7-ELEVEN on Dec. 2 for "System and method for capturing images for training of an item identification model" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,587, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to 7-ELEVEN INC. (Irving, Texas).

"System and method for capturing images for training of an item identification model" was invented by Sumedh Vilas Datar (Grapevine, Texas), Tejas Pradip Rode (Coppell, Texas), Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, Texas) and Crystal Maung (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for capturing images for training an item identification model obtains an identifier of an item. The system detects a triggering event at a platform, where the triggering event corresponds to a user placing the item on a platform. At least one camera captures an image of the ite...