US Patent Issued to Trax Technology Solutions on Sept. 16 for "Using shopping lists to resolve ambiguities in visual product recognition" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,486, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Trax Technology Solutions Pte Ltd. (Singapore).

"Using shopping lists to resolve ambiguities in visual product recognition" was invented by Youval Bronicki (Los Altos, Calif.) and Dan Bendler (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for using an electronic shopping list to resolve ambiguity associated with a selected product may include accessing an electronic shopping list associated with a customer of a retail store; receiving image data captured using one or more image sensors in the retail store; analyzing the image data to detect a product selection event involving a sho...