US Patent Issued to 7-Eleven on March 17 for "System and method for electronically determining correct product placement of items" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,508, issued on March 17, was assigned to 7-Eleven Inc. (Irving, Texas).

"System and method for electronically determining correct product placement of items" was invented by Shahmeer Ali Mirza (Celina, Texas) and Matthew O'Daniel Redmond (Denton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a plurality of racks each storing packs of cigarettes, a display device associated with each rack and a master controller coupled to the racks and the display devices. A processor of the master controller is configured to receive a first indication that a scanner has scanned a first code associated with a first rack of the plurality of ...