ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,576, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Standard Cognition Corp. (San Francisco).

"Tracking inventory items in a store for re- stocking of inventory items to be re-stocked" was invented by Jordan E. Fisher (San Francisco), Daniel L. Fischetti (San Francisco), Michael S. Suswal (San Francisco) and Nicholas J. Locascio (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed relates to a method for tracking inventory items including dividing an area of real space into a plurality of cells and identifying inventory items and their locations in the area of real space using sequences of images produced by at least two sensor...