US Patent Issued to Staples on June 24 for "Restocking hub with interchangeable buttons mapped to item identifiers" (Washington, Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,413, issued on June 24, was assigned to Staples Inc. (Framingham, Mass.).

"Restocking hub with interchangeable buttons mapped to item identifiers" was invented by M. Steven Walker (Andover, Mass.), Ranjeet Sonone (San Jose, Calif.) and Faisal Masud (Fall City, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A restocking hub with interchangeable buttons mapped to item identifiers is described herein. In some instances, a local hub may receive an actuation signal from a particular interchangeable button communicatively coupled with the local hub. The actuation signal may include a button ID that identifies the particular interchangeable button an...