US Patent Issued to Target Brands on Jan. 13 for "Retail shelf image processing and inventory tracking system" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,868, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Retail shelf image processing and inventory tracking system" was invented by Arun Patil (Bengaluru, India), Prakash Mall (Bengaluru, India), Snigdha Samal (Bengaluru, India), Soma Halder (Kolkata, India), Mohit Sethi (Bengaluru, India) and Swaroop Shivaram (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed system and method relate to automatically detecting empty spaces on retail store shelves, identifying the missing product(s) and causing the space to be replenished or restocked. For example, stores may use shelf-mounted imaging devices to captur...