ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,921, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Item transitions" was invented by Gianna Lise Puerini (Seattle), Dilip Kumar (Seattle) and Steven Kessel (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes a system for automatically transitioning items from a materials handling facility without delaying a user as they exit the materials handling facility. For example, while a user is located in a materials handling facility, the user may pick one or more items. The items are identified and automatically associated with the user at or near the time of the item pick. When the users enters and/o...