ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,537, issued on June 24, was assigned to 7-ELEVEN INC. (Irving, Texas).
"Item identification using digital image processing" was invented by Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, Texas), Sumedh Vilas Datar (Grapevine, Texas), Shantanu Yadunath Thakurdesai (Denton, Texas) and Crystal Maung (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device configured to detect a triggering event at a platform and to capture a depth image of items on the platform using a three-dimensional (3D) sensor. The device is further configured to determine an object pose for each item on the platform and to identify one or more cameras from among a plurality of...