US Patent Issued to Target Brands on Nov. 3 for "Model design and execution for empty shelf detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,412, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Model design and execution for empty shelf detection" was invented by Dipendra Jha (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ata Mahjoubfar (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Anupama Joshi (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-store system for empty shelf detection substantially reduces computational resources required to determine where out-of-stock conditions are present. Such systems can prioritize analysis of product displays having different levels of turnover or importance, and can use on-site resources to make quick and accurate determinations of out-of-stock condition...