ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,687, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Item-identifying carts" was invented by Jeremy Samuel De Bonet (Southborough, Mass.), Nicholas McMahon (Bolton, Mass.), Oded Maron (Sudbury, Mass.) and Jonathan Cohn (Acton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to an item-identifying cart that may be utilized by a user in a materials handling facility to automatically identify items that the user places in their cart, and update a virtual shopping cart to include items taken by the user. The mobile cart may include four capture assemblies that are disposed proximate to each of the...