US Patent Issued to Captana on Feb. 3 for "Inventory management method and system with synchronized shelf devices and sensors activation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,740, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Captana GmbH (Germany).

"Inventory management method and system with synchronized shelf devices and sensors activation" was invented by Thomas Schwarz (Hohberg, Germany) and Michael UnmuBig (Ettenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an inventory management method which comprises the steps of: controlling shelf devices (AID) arranged on shelves of a fixture to cause the shelf devices to implement a localization process: controlling a sensor (CAM) to acquire sensor signals during the localization process: and localizing each of said shelf devices based on the acquir...