ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,295, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).
"Cart/basket fraud detection processing" was invented by Joshua Migdal (Wayland, Mass.) and Shayan Hemmatiyan (Belmont, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image of a cart/basket is captured based on a triggering event associated with a transaction at a transaction terminal. A determination is made whether the cart/basket is empty or nonempty from the image. When the cart/basket is nonempty a determination is made whether the nonempty cart includes one or more legitimate items or saleable items associated with a store. When the cart/basket is nonempty with one or mo...