ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,217, issued on May 12, was assigned to Seeonic LLC (Minneapolis).

"Automatic inventory monitoring and search system" was invented by Nicholas F. Singh (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general terms, this disclosure is directed to automatic inventory monitoring and interfacing an inventorying monitoring system with a search system. In some embodiments, and by non-limiting example, the automatic inventory monitoring system monitoring the presence of a product having a product identification tag associated therewith. In some embodiments, the search system provides search results based at least in part on data collect...