ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,655, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to 7-Eleven Inc. (Irving, Texas).

"Proactive request communication system with improved data prediction using artificial intelligence" was invented by Nicholas E. Evangelopoulos (Denton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An event tracking subsystem detects events for the removal of items at a plurality of locations. A data prediction subsystem receives event data based on the detected events that indicates an amount of an item removed from each of the plurality of locations over a previous period of time. The data prediction subsystem determines a prediction data value for each item at each of ...