US Patent Issued to 7-Eleven on Sept. 29 for "Proactive request communication system with improved data prediction based on anticipated events" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,818, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to 7-Eleven Inc. (Irving, Texas).

"Proactive request communication system with improved data prediction based on anticipated events" was invented by Nicholas E. Evangelopoulos (Denton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data prediction subsystem includes receives event data indicating amounts of items removed from locations over a previous period of time. For a first day of the first set of event data having zero events or an empty status indicating that the first item is not believed to be present at the first location, longitudinal and cross-sectional components are determined. An anticipa...