US Patent Issued to 7-Eleven on Jan. 13 for "System and method for selecting an item from a plurality of identified items based on a similarity value" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,460, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to 7-Eleven Inc. (Irving, Texas).

"System and method for selecting an item from a plurality of identified items based on a similarity value" was invented by Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, Texas), Sumedh Vilas Datar (Grapevine, Texas) and Crystal Maung (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to detecting a triggering event corresponding to placement of a first item on a platform, a plurality of images are captured of the first item and a plurality of cropped images are generated based on the first images. An item identifier is identified based on each cropped image, wherein e...