ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,143, issued on June 10, was assigned to Simbe Robotics Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Method for deploying a robotic system to scan inventory within a store based on local wireless connectivity" was invented by Mirza Akbar Shah (San Francisco), Cem Ersoz (South San Francisco, Calif.), Jariullah Safi (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Bradley Bogolea (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method for deploying a mobile robotic system to scan inventory structures within a store includes: dispatching the mobile robotic system to navigate along inventory structures within the store during a set...