US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on July 15 for "Systems and methods for commercial inventory mapping including determining if goods are still available" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,376, issued on July 15, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for commercial inventory mapping including determining if goods are still available" was invented by Nicholas Carmelo Marotta (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Laura Kennedy (Gilbert, Ariz.) and J D Johnson Willingham (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The following relates generally to light detection and ranging (LIDAR) and artificial intelligence (AI). In some embodiments, a system: receives sensor data via wireless communication; updates an electronic inventory of goods within a store based upon the received se...