ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,740, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Trax Technology Solutions Pte Ltd. (Singapore).

"Crowdsourcing incentive based on shelf location" was invented by Yair Adato (Kfar Shmuel, Israel) and Mark Cook (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying perishable products in a retail store and for automatically generating offers relating to the identified products is provided. The method may include receiving a set of images depicting perishable products of at least one product type displayed on at least one shelving unit in a retail store. The method may also include analyzing the set of images to determine i...