US Patent Issued to Target Brands on July 14 for "Identification of out-of-stock products" (Minnesota, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,485, issued on July 14, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Identification of out-of-stock products" was invented by Antonio Dimitrov (Anoka, Minn.), Neha Admal (Nashville, Tenn.) and John M. Mulligan (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a fixture overlay algorithm that identifies the out-of-stock product by relying on shelf fixture start and end coordinate data points on an image to map the captured image to pre-existing planogram data. The present fixture overlay disclosure detects the start and stop shelf fixture positions for each of the shelves within the shelf ima...