US Patent Issued to Divert on March 11 for "Systems and methods for determining shrinkage of a commodity" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,882, issued on March 11, was assigned to Divert Inc. (Concord, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for determining shrinkage of a commodity" was invented by Nicholas L. Whitman (Lincoln, Mass.) and Ryan R. Begin (Harvard, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining shrinkage of a commodity sold by a store are provided which may include: identifying data indicative of a volume of the commodity, associating a label with a container that holds the commodity, collecting the label information with a reader and transmitting collected label information to at least one server, automatically determining data characteriz...