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AssigneeWalmart Apollo, LLC
InventorsNicholaus Adam Jones, Robert James Taylor, Aaron Vasgaard, Matthew Allen Jones
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A shopping cart deflection measurement system and associated methods are described. The shopping cart deflection measurement system includes a shopping cart, a sensor, and a processing device equipped with a processor. The shopping cart includes a frame, a basket portion pivotably mounted to the frame so as to enable deflection of at least one edge of the basket portion downward in the direction of gravity following a weight being placed in the basket portion, and a lower rack portion mounted to the frame and disposed below the basket portion. The processing device can be configured to execute instructions to measure deflection of the basket portion relative to the lower rack portion of the shopping cart using data acquired by the sensor. The measured deflection can be indicative of a fullness of the basket portion with one or more products.
A shopping cart measurement system, comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions for determining fullness of a shopping cart that are executable by a processing device, wherein execution of the instructions by the processing device causes the processing device to:
A method for determining fullness of a shopping cart, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.