ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,090, issued on July 29, was assigned to Pensa Systems Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Method of data collection for partially identified consumer packaged goods" was invented by Greg Stuart Hilton (Austin, Texas), Joel William Iventosch (Austin, Texas), Catherine Ann Malloy (Austin, Texas) and Michael John Pav (Saint Petersburg, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for identifying consumer packaged goods (CPGs). The method includes providing to a machine learning classifier a set of images containing at least one CPG; receiving from the machine learning classifier an indication that the machine learning classifier cannot r...