ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,696, issued on March 18, was assigned to TRIGO VISION LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Item identification and tracking system" was invented by Shaked Dolev (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yuval Snappir (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Daniel Gabay (Even Yehuda, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for acquiring data relating to an object including arranging a multiplicity of cameras to view a scene, at least one reference object within the scene being viewable by at least a plurality of the multiplicity of cameras, each of the plurality of cameras acquiring at least one image of the reference object viewable thereby, finding a point of intersection o...