US Patent Issued to Target Brands on June 2 for "Mobile apparatus with computer vision elements for product identifier detection with minimal detection adjustments" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,687, issued on June 2, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Mobile apparatus with computer vision elements for product identifier detection with minimal detection adjustments" was invented by Todd A. Hagen (Minneapolis), Donnie Tolbert (Minneapolis), Arne Wilkin (Minneapolis), John Ojanen (Minneapolis), Nicholas Lojewski (Minneapolis) and Yeshwanth Gowda (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and techniques for identifying product identifiers in images. A technique can include receiving, by an edge computing device, x and y coordinates for a location of an out of stock shelf section, determinin...