US Patent Issued to Target Brands on Sept. 29 for "Shelf-mountable imaging system" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,866, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Shelf-mountable imaging system" was invented by Anup Jayapal Rao (Bengaluru, India), Sunay Narkar (Bengaluru, India), Karthik Raju (Bengaluru, India), Sanjay Bhokse (Bengaluru, India), Sandeep Tammana (Bengaluru, India), Abby P Joby (College Station, Texas), Hithyshi M (Tumakuru, India) and Kurmanadharao Valla (Srikakulam, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system capture images of products on shelves in a minimally invasive way. The images can be processed to assess restocking needs and other information. The imaging system includes multiple sh...