US Patent Issued to Simbe Robotics on Feb. 24 for "Method, system, and article of manufacture for managing click and delivery shopping events" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,729, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Simbe Robotics Inc. (Burlingame, Calif.).

"Method, system, and article of manufacture for managing click and delivery shopping events" was invented by Bradley Bogolea (Burlingame, Calif.) and Jariullah Safi (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method for managing virtual shopping lists includes: dispatching robotic systems, deployed in store, to autonomously scan inventory structures within this store; deriving current stock conditions of this store based on scan data recorded by these robotic systems; initializing a virtual shopping list for a user; in response...