US Patent Issued to Simbe Robotics on Feb. 10 for "Method for tracking product inventory location in a store" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,977, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Simbe Robotics Inc. (Burlingame, Calif.).

"Method for tracking product inventory location in a store" was invented by Dave Cortese (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Brad Bogolea (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: accessing a first image captured at a first time; deriving a first in-stock condition of the slot at the first time based on product units of a product type occupying a slot, depicted in the first image, at the first time based on features detected in the first image; accessing a second image captured at a second, later time; deriving a secon...