US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 11 for "Apparatus for automating inventory and automatic inventory system and method" (New York, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,002, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Apparatus for automating inventory and automatic inventory system and method" was invented by Dinesh C. Verma (New Castle, N.Y.) and Wayne B. Riley (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for automating inventory procedures for items stored on shelves in a closed environment includes a mobile mechanical device having a movable appendage including a camera and additional sensory modalities. The camera and additional sensory modalities are used to position the movable appendage to take camera images of the items on the shel...