ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,580, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).
"System for providing digital map corrections" was invented by Brandon Reuter (Minneapolis), Eric Runquist (Minneapolis), Gagan Mahajan (Minneapolis), Jeffrey A. Tate (Minneapolis) and Vidya Attivilli (Minneapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a method performed by data processing apparatuses includes receiving original map data for a digital map of a physical space, receiving item location data that represents item scans that have been performed by mobile devices in the physical space, and determining that a discrepancy exists for a f...