US Patent Issued to Mashgin on July 8 for "Method and system for item identification" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,313, issued on July 8, was assigned to Mashgin Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and system for item identification" was invented by Abhinai Srivastava (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Mukul Dhankhar (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method for item identification preferably includes determining visual information for an item; calculating a first encoding using the visual information; calculating a second encoding using the first encoding; determining an item identifier for the item using the second encoding; optionally presenting information associated with the item to a user; and optionally registering a new item."

The p...