Patented: 7-Eleven’s Item-Recognition Tech and 121 More Inventions Across North Texas

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Dallas Innovates, Every Day: Here's what's new + next in North Texas. Irving-based 7-Eleven added to its intellectual property with a pair of patents the week of Sept. 29. The patents relate to its ongoing work on inventory tracking and computer-vision item recognition. One patent improves data p...

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