US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI HANSHI INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 13 for "Data reduction in a bar code reading robot shelf monitoring system" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,734, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SHANGHAI HANSHI INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Data reduction in a bar code reading robot shelf monitoring system" was invented by Sarjoun Skaff (Pittsburgh) and Stephen Vincent Williams (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for greatly reducing data storage requirements of autonomous robots capable of product inventory is described. Instead using high resolution images for label identification and position tracking, a lower resolution map can be searched. Human or machines can identify position of labels, and via a reverse mapping, the corresponding position of a la...