ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,194, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Conserving power in item-identifying carts" was invented by Abhay Doke (Boston), Mohsen Malmir (Cambridge, Mass.), Ejaz Ahmed (Needham, Mass.), Kilho Son (Brookline, Mass.), Austen Groener (Bolton, Mass.) and Vinod Krishnan Kulathumani (Westborough, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to an item-identifying, mobile cart that may be utilized by a user in a materials handling facility to automatically identify items that the user places into a basket of the cart. The cart may include cameras for detecting activity near a basket of ...