ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,579, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).
"Methods and a system for in-store navigation" was invented by Christian Lee McDaniel (Atlanta) and Alexander Simon Lewin (Marietta, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A list of items to pick for an order at a store is obtained. A hierarchical graph of the store is maintained based on regions within the store, endpoints within the store, and locations of items relative to the regions and endpoints. Each item in the list is connected to its nearest endpoint within the graph and a path is found between the endpoints. An optimized and order list of the items is found bas...