US Patent Issued to Target Brands on May 26 for "Real-time detection of metric anomalies for a retail environment" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,664, issued on May 26, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Real-time detection of metric anomalies for a retail environment" was invented by Travis James Noll (St. Paul, Minn.), Venkata Rao Putrevu (Maple Grove, Minn.), Grady Michael Johnson (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Katherine Ann Sorensen (Elk River, Minn.), Venkata Naga Anitha Ganta (Plymouth, Minn.), Alexander Jacques Bates (St. Paul, Minn.), Kristen Sullivan (Zimmerman, Minn.) and Rachel Lin Alderman (Hanover, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed system provides real-time detection and remediation of metric anomalies in a replenishment network. A computer...