ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,235, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SCHNUCK MARKETS INC. (St. Louis).

"Consumer inventory management system and methods thereof" was invented by Thomas E. Henry Jr. (Wildwood, Mo.), Yujin Lee (Maryland Heights, Mo.), Yao Xie (Chesterfield, Mo.), Adrian Salazar (Overland, Mo.), Kim Anderson (St. Louis), Sue Mosbacher (Ballwin, Mo.), David Steck (Ballwin, Mo.), Robert Hardester (Olivette, Mo.) and Caleb Hoelscher (Edwardsville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for managing inventory can include an inventory management system obtaining a gap-on-shelf status. The inventory management control system can ...