ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,916, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Shelf-mountable imaging system" was invented by Anup Jayapal Rao (Bengaluru, India), Sunay Narkar (Bengaluru, India), Sanjay Bhokse (Bengaluru, India), Sandeep Tammana (Bengaluru, India), Karthik Raju (Bengaluru, India), Shanavas M S (Bengaluru, India) and Wasim Salih Thari (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system capture images of products on shelves in a minimally invasive way. The images can be processed to assess restocking needs and other information. The imaging system includes multiple shelf-mountable imaging devices that can b...