US Patent Issued to 7-ELEVEN on Feb. 25 for "System and method for refining an item identification model based on feedback" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,932, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to 7-ELEVEN INC. (Irving, Texas).

"System and method for refining an item identification model based on feedback" was invented by Sumedh Vilas Datar (Grapevine, Texas), Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, Texas), Shantanu Yadunath Thakurdesai (Denton, Texas) and Shahmeer Ali Mirza (Celina, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for refining an item identification model detects a triggering event at a platform. The system captures images of the item. The system extracts a set of features from at least one of the images. The system identifies the item based on the set of features. The ...