Patent US20230368216A1 – Shopping Cart with Location-Based Item Verification

Abstract

In some implementations, a computer-implemented method verifies item placed in physical shopping carts, using location data. An item verification engine receives an item scanned notification indicating that a mobile computing device has scanned an item, an item sensed notification indicating that a cart computing system has sensed the item being added to a shopping cart, item verification data that specifies an expected location of the scanned item, and actual location data that represents an actual location of the item in the retail environment. After receiving the item scanned notification, the item sensed notification, the item verification data, and the actual location data, a verification of the item is performed based at least in part on the item verification data and the actual location data. The item verification engine provides verification results based on performing the verification of the item, for receipt by the mobile computing device.