US Patent Issued to Simbe Robotics on Jan. 27 for "Method for classifying product organization in an inventory structure" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,495, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Simbe Robotics Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Method for classifying product organization in an inventory structure" was invented by Brad Bogolea (San Francisco), Jariullah Safi (San Francisco), Kanchan Bahirat (San Francisco) and Shiva Reddy (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: locating a first slot boundary around a first product unit, in an image of an inventory structure in a store, identifies as a first product type based on features detected in the image; extracting a first product identifier, from a first slot tag, detected in the image; based on corresp...