ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,236, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Inc. (Durham, N.C.).
"Automated shelf stock management" was invented by David Steiner (Durham, N.C.), Craig Compton (Wake Forest, N.C.) and Daniel Hunt (Wake Forest, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of performing automated shelf stock management are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is performed by a first network node operationally coupled to an optical sensor device having a field of view towards a shelf structure having a set of stocked items and operable to capture an image of the shelf structure. Further, the first networ...