US Patent Issued to Simbe Robotics on Aug. 18 for "Method for tracking and maintaining inventory in a store" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,455, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Simbe Robotics Inc. (Burlingame, Calif.).

"Method for tracking and maintaining inventory in a store" was invented by Bradley Bogolea (South San Francisco, Calif.), Durgesh Tiwari (South San Francisco, Calif.), Jariullah Safi (South San Francisco, Calif.), Shiva Reddy (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Lorin Vandegrift (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method for tracking and maintaining inventory in a store includes: accessing a image of an inventory structure in the store; identifying a top shelf, in the inventory structure, depicted in the image; id...