ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,726, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Mashgin Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"System and method for identifying items" 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: "In variants, a method for item recognition can include: optionally calibrating a sampling system, determining visual data using the sampling system, determining a point cloud, determining region masks based on the point cloud, generating a surface reconstruction for each item, generating image segments for each item based on the surface reconstruction, and determining a class identifier for each it...