ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,604, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Simbe Robotics Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).
"Method for scene segmentation" was invented by Kanchan Bahirat (South San Francisco, Calif.), Shiva Reddy (South San Francisco, Calif.), Bradley Bogolea (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Jariullah Safi (South San Francisco, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method for segmenting scenes of product units arranged in inventory structures within a store includes: accessing an image based on data captured by a mobile robotic system; detecting a shelving segment in the image; reading a segment identifier from a segment tag, ...