US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for training data generation for object identification and self-checkout anti-theft" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,309, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for training data generation for object identification and self-checkout anti-theft" was invented by Lin Gao (New York), Yilin Huang (Shanghai), Shiyuan Yang (Jersey City, N.J.), Ahmed Beshry (New York), Michael Sanzari (New York), Jungsoo Woo (Jersey City, N.Y.), Sarang Zambare (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Griffin Kelly (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are technologies for generating training data for identification neural networks. Series of images are captured of a plurality of merchandise items from different angles and with...