ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,606, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Planogram item category modification" was invented by Rajesh Thamarasseri (Karnataka, India), Noah E. Dahlien (Minneapolis), Chandramouli Pathipati (Minneapolis), Derek Mooney (Minneapolis), Kirti Kesavarapu (Minneapolis), Ross W. Buchanan (St. Paul, Minn.) and Carl Hendrickson (Minneapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application describes a system and method which may enable an enterprise to map existing planograms for a group of stores in order to facilitate a modification of an item category in a planogram for the stores. One or more planog...