US Patent Issued to Target Brands on Aug. 26 for "Mobile apparatus with computer vision elements for classifying shelf-space" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,181, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Mobile apparatus with computer vision elements for classifying shelf-space" was invented by Todd A. Hagen (Minneapolis), Donnie Tolbert (Minneapolis), Arne Wilkin (Minneapolis), John Ojanen (Minneapolis), Nicholas Lojewski (Minneapolis) and Yeshwanth Gowda (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and techniques for determining out of stock conditions on shelves. The techniques can include receiving, by a computing system, image data from a camera having pixel locations that each uniquely address and store a pixel value, generating a ba...