ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,444, issued on March 18, was assigned to WASTELESS LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"System and method to attribute expiration dates and quantities of a product to a SKU code for pricing purposes" was invented by Oded Omer (Holon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to attribute expiration dates and quantities of a product to an SKU code for pricing purposes. This method applies dynamic pricing to perishable food items. Using bulk tagging capabilities, the supermarket can attribute expiration dates to items without the pain of actually tagging the items with stickers."

The patent was filed on Jan. 12, 2022, under Appl...