US Patent Issued to Block on Oct. 21 for "Learning for individual detection in brick and mortar store based on sensor data and feedback" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,617, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Learning for individual detection in brick and mortar store based on sensor data and feedback" was invented by Marvin Balaoro (San Francisco), Brett Andler (San Francisco) and Nikolaj Leschly (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brick-and-mortar (BAM) store control system uses sensors and wireless transceivers to track customers, merchant representatives, devices, and/or objects within a BAM store area. The system can identify and track product and/or service inventory within the BAM store area and/or in individual's personal inventories, for instance...