ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,718, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Alpha Modus Corp. (Cornelius, N.C.).
"Methods and systems for providing customer assistance in a retail store" was invented by Michael Garel (Austin, Texas) and Jim Wang (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and systems for providing customer assistance in a retail store. The methods and systems include using information monitoring devices to identify a person at a retail store, which information includes (a) gathering information of one or more products that the first person retained while shopping at the store, (b) tracking the first person to a point-of-sale area of the reta...