US Patent Issued to Target Brands on Sept. 23 for "System and method for determining an on-shelf availability status of an item within a retail location" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,649, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"System and method for determining an on-shelf availability status of an item within a retail location" was invented by Samantha Jo Stanke (Minneapolis), Jake Thomas Linnabary (Maple Grove, Minn.), Andrew Peter Kuledge (Minneapolis), Samantha Megan Schumacher (Roseville, Minn.), Swapnil Satish Deshpande (Lakeville, Minn.) and Jacqlyn Johnson Poss (St. Louis Park, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for determining an on-shelf availability status of an item within a retail location is provided. In example aspects, a plurality of potential unavailabi...