ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,739, issued on June 17, was assigned to STANDARD COGNITION CORP. (San Francisco).

"Machine learning-based re-identification of shoppers in a cashier-less store for autonomous checkout" was invented by Michele Toni (Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, Italy), Atul Dhingra (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jordan Fisher (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for tracking and re-identifying tracked subjects in an area of real space are disclosed. The method includes generating first and second reidentification feature vectors of a first subject identified from a first time interval from the respective first and second sequences ...