US Patent Issued to Unefi on Sept. 22 for "Data gathering for store fixtures and the products therein" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,713, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Unefi Inc. (Toronto).

"Data gathering for store fixtures and the products therein" was invented by Ranko Dimic (Toronto), Samuel Arthur Vise (Toronto) and Tibor Szanto (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for gathering data regarding a specific fixture and the products displayed on that fixture. A user is guided towards the specific fixture and is directed to take images of the fixture as well as of specific products displayed on that fixture. Data regarding one or more of these products is also gathered from the user. The images taken as well as the data gathered are t...