US Patent Issued to 7-ELEVEN on Aug. 5 for "Tool for generating a virtual store that emulates a physical store" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,492, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to 7-ELEVEN INC. (Irving, Texas).

"Tool for generating a virtual store that emulates a physical store" was invented by Matthew Raymond Magee (Waco, Texas), Joshua E. Berry (Waco, Texas), Trong Nghia Nguyen (Dallas) and Ravi Kumar Kurva (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus to create a virtual layout of a virtual store to emulate a physical layout of a physical store includes a memory and a processor. The processor receives a physical position and orientation associated with a physical rack located in the physical store. In response, the processor places a virtual rack at a virtu...