US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on May 13 for "Systems and methods for building image databases to facilitate computer vision-based consumer product identification" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,072, issued on May 13, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for building image databases to facilitate computer vision-based consumer product identification" was invented by Soren A. Larson (New York), Soheil Salehian-Dardashti (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Elizabeth J. Barton (East Setauket, N.Y.) and Victoria Moeller-Chan (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for facilitating computer-vision-based detection and identification of consumer products comprise a support surface for supporting thereon one or more consumer products to be detected and a plurality of digital cameras e...