ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,457, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Determining a location of a mobile cart" was invented by Bruno Miranda Artacho (Arlington, Va.), Vinod Krishnan Kulathumani (Westborough, Mass.) and Sreemanananth Sadanand (Shrewsbury, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to, in part, mobile carts that are configured to determine their respective locations based on analysis of image data generated by cameras mounted to the respective carts. For instance, an example mobile cart may include at least one camera of a field-of-view directed substantially away from a cart and substantiall...