US Patent Issued to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY on Oct. 7 for "System and method for identifying products in a shelf management system" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,258, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh).

"System and method for identifying products in a shelf management system" was invented by Marios Savvides (Wexford, Pa.), Uzair Ahmed (Pittsburgh), Sreena Nallamothu (Pittsburgh), Magesh Kannan (Pittsburgh) and Abhishek Das (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system and method of identifying products on a retail shelf using a feature extractor trained to extract features from images of products on the shelf and output identifying information regarding the product in the product image. The extracted features are compared to extr...