ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,291, issued on June 2, was assigned to Pensa Systems Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Method for scaling fine-grained object recognition of consumer packaged goods" was invented by Joel Iventosch (Austin, Texas) and James E. Dutton (Clinton, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for assigning a classification to consumer packaged goods (CPGs). The method includes capturing an image of a plurality of CPGs arranged on a shelf; providing the captured image to a CPG detector; identifying all of the CPGs in the image; producing a set of cropped images, wherein each cropped image shows a single CPG as it appears in the image; and f...