US Patent Issued to Taco Marketing on Feb. 17 for "Consumer purchasing and inventory control assistant apparatus, system and methods" (Wisconsin, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,074, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Taco Marketing LLC (Fort Myers, Fla.).

"Consumer purchasing and inventory control assistant apparatus, system and methods" was invented by Todd B. Ferguson (Fort Myers, Fla.) and Andrew M. Czachowski (Greenfield, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing inventory comprising generating a list of inventory items, identifying removal of one of the inventory items from inventory, updating the list of inventory items as inventory items are removed, predicting a future rate of removal of inventory items, and developing purchasing plan for inventory items based on predicted rate of rem...