US Patent Issued to 7-ELEVEN on May 13 for "System and method for populating a virtual shopping cart based on a verification of algorithmic determinations of items selected during a shopping session in a physical store" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,714, issued on May 13, was assigned to 7-ELEVEN INC. (Irving, Texas).

"System and method for populating a virtual shopping cart based on a verification of algorithmic determinations of items selected during a shopping session in a physical store" was invented by Matthew Raymond Magee (Sanger, Texas) and Shahmeer Ali Mirza (Celina, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a display and a processor. The processor displays a virtual shopping cart. The processor also receives information indicating that an algorithm determined that a physical item was selected by a person during a shopping session in a physical store, b...