US Patent Issued to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY on Jan. 27 for "System and method for matching products and determining spreads and plugs" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,769, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh).

"System and method for matching products and determining spreads and plugs" was invented by Marios Savvides (Pittsburgh), Chenchen Zhu (Pittsburgh), Fangyi Chen (Pittsburgh), Uzair Ahmed (Pittsburgh) and Ran Tao (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system and method for matching products detected in an image of a shelf. The match or non-match of the products is then used to make a determination that the products are correctly positioned on the shelf of if the positioning of the products represents a plug or spread situation."...