ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,057, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Assortment planning method, assortment planning system and processing apparatus thereof for smart store" was invented by Chi-Chou Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hsin-Chien Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assortment planning method, an assortment planning system and a processing apparatus thereof for a smart store are provided. The assortment planning system includes at least one tracking apparatus, a plurality of detecting apparatuses, and a processing apparatus. The tracking apparatus is used to identify a plur...