US Patent Issued to 7-Eleven on Jan. 13 for "Proactive request communication system with improved data prediction with time of day adjustment" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,718, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to 7-Eleven Inc. (Irving, Texas).

"Proactive request communication system with improved data prediction with time of day adjustment" was invented by Nicholas E. Evangelopoulos (Denton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data prediction subsystem stores hourly event potential data indicating an expected amount of removal events as a function of time of day. Based at least in part on event data, it is determined that a first item associated with a first location has an empty status at a time after a start of a day. For the day, an anticipated event value is determined for the first item at the f...