US Patent Issued to 7-Eleven on Jan. 27 for "System and method for identifying a second item based on an association with a first item" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,673, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to 7-Eleven Inc. (Irving, Texas).

"System and method for identifying a second item based on an association with a first item" was invented by Sumedh Vilas Datar (Grapevine, Texas), Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, Texas), Shashipal Reddy Masini (Austin, Texas) and Shahmeer Ali Mirza (Celina, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An item tracking system comprises a plurality of cameras, a memory storing associations between item identifiers of respective items, and a processor configured to capture a plurality of first images of a first item and identify a first item identifier of the firs...