ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,791, issued on April 21, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Automated detection of carton damage" was invented by Matthew Nokleby (Minneapolis), Deepti Pachauri (Minneapolis) and Kenneth Zins (St. Paul, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for automated detection of carton defects are disclosed. One method includes capturing one or more images of a carton via a camera system at a routing location within a warehouse of a retail supply chain, and applying a machine learning model to determine a likelihood of damage of the carton. The method can include, based on the likelihood of damage being above ...