US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Jan. 27 for "Stackable charging device for shopping carts with onboard computing systems" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,119, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Stackable charging device for shopping carts with onboard computing systems" was invented by Lin Gao (Miami), Yilin Huang (Shanghai), Shiyuan Yang (Shanghai), Jianbo Meng (Shanghai), Yakun Li (Shanghai), Linhua Luo (Shanghai) and Weiting Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated checkout system uses a shopping cart that is automatically charged when stacked into another shopping cart. Each shopping cart has a front charging connector and a rear charging connector. When a first shopping cart is stacked into a second shopping cart, the front charg...