ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,645, issued on July 14, was assigned to Preferred Networks Inc. (Tokyo).

"Analysis device, analysis system, analysis method, and computer-readable medium" was invented by Eiichi Matsumoto (Tokyo), Shunta Saito (Tokyo), Daisuke Nishino (Tokyo), Yoshihiro Yamada (Tokyo), Yoshifumi Maruyama (Tokyo) and Yuichi Nonome (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of the present disclosure relates to an analysis device including one or more memories and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to estimate an arrangement region of a group of products of a same type based on a sales floor image, and notify informa...