US Patent Issued to Rakuten Group on Oct. 14 for "Information processing system, occupancy rate calculation method, and non-transitory computer readable memory" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,917, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, occupancy rate calculation method, and non-transitory computer readable memory" was invented by Ken Kuroda (Tokyo), Chisa Yamamoto (Tokyo), Manabu Toraishi (Tokyo) and Shuhei Shimamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The shelf tier management system S acquires size information of a shelf tier and size information of an accommodated item that has been accommodated in the shelf tier, obtains a occupancy rate of the accommodated item in the shelf tier on the basis of at least the size information of the shelf tier and the size infor...