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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
May. 20, 2024
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Jacob A. Siegel, Southborough, MA (US);
Nicholas Franklin, Northborough, MA (US);
Joseph Harkness, Westford, MA (US);
Jonathan David Jones, Arlington, VA (US);
Keru Xia, Malden, MA (US);
Andrew Vincent Wolff, Norfolk, MA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A smart shopping cart may include a frame with wheels for riding along a support surface that nests with one or more other smart shopping carts. The smart shopping cart includes a basket coupled to a frame through a scale module connected adjacent to a first end of the basket for determining a weight of items placed in the basket. The scale module includes three load cells oriented perpendicular to the length of the basket and position with two load cells adjacent a middle portion of the basket and a single load cell adjacent the first end of the basket. The load cells provide an analog signal converted by an embedded circuit board into a digital signal for determination of weight of items placed in the basket.