US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Jan. 28 for "Third-party retailer delegation for automated-checkout retail environments" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,023, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Third-party retailer delegation for automated-checkout retail environments" was invented by Sumit Dhawan (Lynnwood, Wash.), Smita Joshi (Issaquah, Wash.), Gautham Shankar Katta (Kirkland, Wash.), Ritu Varma (Redmond, Wash.), Derek Joseph Simeone (Seattle), Patrick Luke Mealey (Seattle) and Aravindhan Thanigachalam (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and techniques for implementing a third-party item tracking and payment system that enables a user to walk out without a manual checkout process. The techniques include receiving ...