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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2022
Zebra Technologies Corporation, Lincolnshire, IL (US);
Karthikeyan Nagarajan, Chennai, IN;
Alessandro Bay, London, GB;
Zebra Technologies Corporation, Lincolnshire, IL (US);
Abstract
Devices, systems, and methods for weight-based tracking of prepared foods for affecting checkout. The devices, systems, and methods may include detecting, by one or more scale devices, a change in weight of a respective prepared food item stored at each of the one or more scale devices; controlling, by the respective scale device, a first transceiver of the respective scale device to transmit prepared food transaction data to a second transceiver of a user tray; storing, by the user tray, the transmitted prepared food transaction data in a memory slot at the second transceiver of the user tray; repeating the foregoing at each of the one or more scale devices at which a change in weight of a respective prepared food item is detected; and completing, by a transaction processing station, a checkout of the user tray.