US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on Aug. 26 for "Systems and methods for auto-replenishment of products using pressure mapping sensors and machine learning" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,182, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for auto-replenishment of products using pressure mapping sensors and machine learning" was invented by Elizabeth J. Barton (East Setauket, N.Y.), Soren A. Larson (New York), Soheil Salehian-Dardashti (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Victoria A. Moeller-Chan (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying, tracking usage of, and replenishing products on a shelf of a product storage unit include a pressure sensor array positioned on the shelf and configured to detect forces exerted on the pressure sensor array by...