ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,446, issued on March 25, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Shopping cart with infrared product validation" was invented by Todd A. Hagen (Minneapolis), Andrew Wipf (Minneapolis), Donnie Tolbert (Minneapolis) and Arne Wilkin (Minneapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology provides for reconstructing products that are added to a shopping cart in three-dimensional space. The reconstructed products can be used for product validation. A shopping cart can include product validation hardware including light emitters and light sensors along a top perimeter of the shopping cart. The shopping cart can act...