US Patent Issued to 7-Eleven on Jan. 27 for "System and method for identifying unmoved items on a platform during item identification" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,674, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to 7-Eleven Inc. (Irving, Texas).

"System and method for identifying unmoved items on a platform during item identification" was invented by Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, Texas), Sumedh Vilas Datar (Grapevine, Texas), Crystal Maung (Dallas) and Xinan Wang (McKinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to detecting a first triggering event corresponding to placement of a first item on a platform, a first image of the platform is captured. A first item identifier of the first item is identified and stored in a memory. In response to detecting a second triggering event corre...