ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,630, issued on May 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Customized retail environments" was invented by Aaron M. McDaniel (Seattle), Joel Stirling (Everett, Wash.), Emily Marsden (Seattle), Nirmal Doshi (Bothell, Wash.) and Nathan P. O'Neill (Snohomish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes, in part, systems for enabling facilities to implement techniques to determine when users are in possession of items when located within and/or exiting the facilities. For instance, a system may use one or more sensors to determine locations of a user that navigated through a facility. Additionally, the...