ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,256, issued on March 4, was assigned to STANDARD COGNITION CORP. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods to check-in shoppers in a cashier-less store" was invented by Jordan E. Fisher (San Francisco), Warren Green (San Francisco) and Daniel L. Fischetti (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for linking subjects in an area of real space with user accounts. The user accounts are linked with client applications executable on mobile computing devices. A plurality of cameras are disposed above the area. The cameras in the plurality of cameras produce respective sequences of images in corresponding...