US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 13 for "Resolving events in item-identifying carts" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,728, issued on May 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Resolving events in item-identifying carts" was invented by Sreemanananth Sadanand (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Oded Maron (Sudbury, Mass.) and Michael Derryberry (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to item-identifying carts that may be utilized by users in material handling facilities to automatically identify items that the users place in their carts as they move around the material handling facilities. In addition, these carts may automatically determine the outcome of respective events that occur with respect to these identifi...