US Patent Issued to Simbe Robotics on March 24 for "System and method for selectively re-stocking inventory structures with stock of product from back-of-store inventory" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,033, issued on March 24, was assigned to Simbe Robotics Inc. (Burlingame, Calif.).

"System and method for selectively re-stocking inventory structures with stock of product from back-of-store inventory" was invented by Jariullah Safi (South San Francisco, Calif.), Bradley Bogolea (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Tom Gehani (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method includes: receiving a first image captured by a mobile device in a back-of-store inventory region of a store; identifying a product type represented in the first image; accessing a second image of an inventory structure in a cus...