US Patent Issued to Nielsen Consumer on Sept. 9 for "Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus for configurable segmentation of product assortments" (New York, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,186, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Nielsen Consumer LLC (Chicago).

"Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus for configurable segmentation of product assortments" was invented by Doreen Stahl (New York), Madison R. Smith (Chicago), Bruce C. Richardson (Arlington Heights, Ill.) and Larry P. Menke (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for text extraction from a receipt image. An example non-transitory computer readable medium is disclosed comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to at least generate a baseline product hierar...