US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on May 6 for "Touchless multi-staged retail process automation systems and methods" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,718, issued on May 6, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Touchless multi-staged retail process automation systems and methods" was invented by Jacob Holman (Bonney Lake, Wash.), Ravikiran Mahadevappa Sindogi (Bothell, Wash.) and Michael Lim Tang (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touchless multi-staged retail process automation systems and methods (retail process automation system) to automate key store functionalities within retail stores is disclosed. The retail process automation system receives a set of commands (e.g., a voice command) to automatically perform retail store operations such as open...