US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on Jan. 13 for "Smart bagging station with halo sensor array" (Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,101, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Smart bagging station with halo sensor array" was invented by Ryan Paul Crozier (Bentonville, Ark.), Christian Godwin (Bentonville, Ark.), Brendan Wilson (Springdale, Ark.), Jathen Brown (Gravette, Ark.) and John Rollins (Rogers, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples provide a smart bagging station including a halo array of sensor devices generating sensor data associated with a detection zone surrounding the smart bagging station. The smart bagging station includes barcode scanners in a curved arrangement within a recessed sensor device housing l...