ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,749, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Determining item cost using auto-generated sensor data" was invented by Stefan Finkenzeller (Seattle), Ramasubramanian Balagurunathan (Seattle), Aneeta Bhattacharyya (Seattle), Manmeet Bhavsar (Redmond, Wash.), Sanjay Dash (Mercer Island, Wash.), Smita Joshi (Issaquah, Wash.), Siddharth Lathia (Kirkland, Wash.), Shashank Saraogi (Seattle), Lokita Yaputra (Seattle) and Jiongran Zhang (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for determining an appropriate cost to charge a user for an item in an environment that relies on sen...