ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,648, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Safran Cabin Netherlands N.V. (Alkmaar, Netherlands).
"System and method for stock inventory management" was invented by Arne Hoffman (Amsterdam), Ron Verweij (Amersfoort, Netherlands) and Anil Ravi (Huntington Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of inventory management involves steps to obtain a real-time image of a scene using a sensor, filter the real-time image to delineate portions of the scene, predict objects in the filtered real-time image, identify portions of the objects, and classify the objects using a trained model and the identified portions. The method transmi...