US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Maintaining accurate cart-state using auto-generated sensor data" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,735, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Maintaining accurate cart-state using auto-generated sensor data" was invented by Uday Prakash (Seattle), Casey Louis Thurston (Suquamish, Wash.), Kenneth King-Fung Lee (Seattle) and Michal Tucki (Lake Forest Park, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for determining whether a transaction may be finalized for a user. It may first be determined whether the inventory management is to resolve any events prior to finalizing the transaction. In some instances, the inventory management system may refrain from finalizing a transaction if th...