US Patent Issued to Simbe Robotics on Feb. 10 for "Method for autonomous product detection and recognition on inventory structures within a store" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,345, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Simbe Robotics Inc. (Burlingame, Calif.).

"Method for autonomous product detection and recognition on inventory structures within a store" was invented by Bradley Bogolea (South San Francisco, Calif.), Jariullah Safi (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Kanchan Bahirat (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method includes: accessing an image of an inventory structure captured by a robotic system navigating within a facility; detecting an object occupying a slot in the inventory structure depicted in the image; extracting a set of visual features from the im...