ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,003, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Simbe Robotics Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).
"Method for maintaining perpetual inventory within a store" was invented by Durgesh Tiwari (San Francisco), Bradley Bogolea (San Francisco), Jariullah Safi (San Francisco) and Kanchan Bahirat (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method for maintaining perpetual inventory within a store includes: accessing a radar scan of an inventory structure within a store; accessing an optical image of the inventory structure; identifying a product type associated with the slot in a region of the optical image; retrieving a volume...