Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Physical shopping cart having features for use in customer checkout of items placed into the shopping cart
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Application No.: US17345951Application Date: 2021-06-11
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Publication No.: US11772696B2Publication Date: 2023-10-03
- Inventor: Todd A. Hagen , Josh Michael Dingman , Daniel Woods , Donnie Tolbert , Andrew Wipf , Tomas Kadlec , Donald John Armstrong
- Applicant: Target Brands, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MN Minneapolis
- Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MN Minneapolis
- Agency: Barnes & Thornburg LLP
- Main IPC: B62B5/00
- IPC: B62B5/00 ; B62B3/14

Abstract:
Physical shopping carts can have product detection systems and associate physical shopping carts with mobile computing devices (e.g., smartphones, tablet computing devices, smart watches, wearable computing devices). For example, physical shopping carts can be equipped with one or more product detection systems (e.g., scanners, sensors, cameras) that can electronically tally products that are placed in physical shopping carts. Mobile computing devices can be associated with and mounted on the physical shopping carts to provide a variety of enhanced shopping cart features not possible with conventional physical shopping carts, such as electronically tracking the contents of a shopping cart, checking-out from the mobile computing device (instead of at conventional check-out areas, such as point of sale terminals), and others.
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