US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 20 for "Shelf inventory management system, shelf inventory management method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,415, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Shelf inventory management system, shelf inventory management method, and program" was invented by Kunihiro Iwamoto (Nagakute, Japan), Yuta Itozawa (Nagoya, Japan), Hirotaka Komura (Tokyo) and Yutaro Takagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shelf inventory management system includes: a shelf including a plurality of storage boxes each of which is identified; a first sensor provided for each row of the shelf to detect a mass change of the storage boxes, and a second sensor for detecting that each of the storage boxes is pulled out from the shelf; and a ...