US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 14 for "Method of household item inventory management" (California, Indiana, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,916, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Method of household item inventory management" was invented by Allison Kei Ishida (Alameda, Calif.), Su Liu (Austin, Texas), Diana Isabelle Ovadia (Camarillo, Calif.) and Chloe McCracken (West Harrison, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for item management is provided. The present invention may include identifying all items within sensor feeds of a sensor set within a venue; creating a list comprising entries for the identified items, the entries comprisi...