US Patent Issued to Target Brands on July 28 for "Generating watch lists for retail stores based on unstructured data and system-based inferences" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,769, issued on July 28, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Generating watch lists for retail stores based on unstructured data and system-based inferences" was invented by Christopher Brakob (Minneapolis) and Ethan Sommer (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for generating a watch list of users who pose specific security threats to a store. The method can include retrieving, by a computer system from a data store, case files that document activity that poses a security threat by a user at the store, predicting, based on applying prediction models to the case files, futur...