US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on Sept. 23 for "System, method, and machine-readable media for monitoring objects in a cart using sensors" (Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,737, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"System, method, and machine-readable media for monitoring objects in a cart using sensors" was invented by Matthew Allen Jones (Bentonville, Ark.), Aaron James Vasgaard (Fayetteville, Ark.), Nicholaus Adam Jones (Fayetteville, Ark.) and Robert James Taylor (Rogers, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for monitoring objects in a cart is disclosed. A cart is configured to receive an object and includes a plurality of sensors configured to detect a location of the cart and a characteristic of an object in the cart. The cart also includes a doc...