ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,481, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Item dimensions outlier detection sytems and methods" was invented by Cole Stiegler (Minneapolis), Mansi Tripathi (Minneapolis) and Dakota R. Brown (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for determining item dimension accuracy. The method can include receiving, by a computing system, dimensions data for an item and retrieving, from a data store, one or more machine learning models that were trained to determine accuracy of the dimensions data for the item relative to similar items in a same category of items. The models wer...