ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,900, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"Weight-based item detection" was invented by Mark Thomas Fountain (Hitchin, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example transporter includes: a chassis with a locomotive assembly; a shelf supported on the chassis to receives items; a weight sensing system associated with the shelf, the weight sensing system configured to measure an item weight for an item received on the shelf; a processor interconnected with the weight sensing system, the processor configured to: obtain, from the weight sensing system, the item weight; identify an ite...