Andrew James Wipf

US Patent:

20200198680, Jun 25, 2020

Filed:

Dec 13, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/714647

Inventors:

- Minneapolis MN, US
Andrew Wipf - Minneapolis MN, US
Josh Michael Dingman - Minneapolis MN, US
Donnie Tolbert - Minneapolis MN, US
Donald John Armstrong - Carver MN, US

International Classification:

B62B 5/00
G06Q 30/06
H04W 4/80
H04B 5/00
G06Q 20/20

Abstract:

A physical shopping cart comprises a controller and a sensor array comprising an initial sensor configured to detect possible-items placed into the physical shopping cart and a secondary sensor configured to determine if possible-items detected by the initial sensor is are items-of-interest. The physical shopping cart is configured to maintain the secondary sensor in a low-power state; sense a possible-item placed into the physical shopping cart; determine if the possible-item is an item-of-interest; and transmit a sense-message that identifies the item-of-interest.

US Patent:

20200108851, Apr 9, 2020

Filed:

Oct 4, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/593837

Inventors:

- Minneapolis MN, US
Josh Michael Dingman - Minneapolis MN, US
Daniel Woods - Brooklyn Park MN, US
Donnie Tolbert - Carver MN, US
Andrew Wipf - Minneapolis MN, US
Tomas Kadlec - Minneapolis MN, US
Donald John Armstrong - Minneapolis MN, US

International Classification:

B62B 5/00
B62B 3/14
G06Q 20/32
G06Q 30/06

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.