ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,386, issued on March 25, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Shopping cart with weight bump validation" was invented by Todd A. Hagen (Minneapolis) and Andrew Wipf (Minneapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for validating products that are added to a shopping cart. A shopping cart that can include product validation hardware and a controller, the product validation hardware including motion sensors positioned at least along a top perimeter of the shopping cart and at least one weight sensor positioned inside the shopping cart. The shopping cart can receive, from one or more of...