ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,366, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Auto-generated fulfillment attributes" was invented by Krista Gettle (Oakland, Calif.), Richard Chung (Seattle), Vaishnavi Thangapalam (Fremont, Calif.), Paola Mendoza (Gardena, Calif.) and Randy Findley (Yardley, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating a fulfillment attribute(s) associated with an item(s) based on inputs associated with the item(s) is described. One or more inputs (e.g., images) of an item (packaged or unpackaged) can be analyzed, and characteristics associated with the item can be determined based on the analysis of the inputs. Upon receivin...