ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,004, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to JIO PLATFORMS Ltd. (Ahmedabad, India).

"System and method for vision-assisted checkout" was invented by Naveen Kumar Pandey (Pratapgarh, India), Balakrishna Pailla (Alto Porvarim, India), Shailesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India), Abhinav Anand (Bhopal, India), Suman Choudhary (Bengaluru, India), Divya Bhagwat (Mumbai, India) and Hemant Kashniyal (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This present disclosure proposes a system and method for providing a 3D computer vision-assisted frictionless self-checkout experience in a traditional retail store by using two RGB-D camera sensors and a convey...