ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,708, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Image-based detection of planogram product spaces" was invented by Connor Spencer Blue Worley (Edmonds, Wash.), Claire Law (Seattle), Pahal Kamlesh Dalal (Kirkland, Wash.), Jean Laurent Guigues (Seattle), Jayakrishnan Kumar Eledath (Kenmore, Wash.), Nishitkumar Ashokkumar Desai (Redmond, Wash.), Matthew Fletcher Harrison (Seattle), Gerard Guy Medioni (Los Angeles), Chuhang Zou (Seattle), Petko Tsonev (Issaquah, Wash.), Paul Ignatius Dizon Echevarria (Seattle) and Behjat Siddiquie (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techn...