ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,326, issued on April 7, was assigned to VisionX LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Management and security alert system and self-service retail store initialization system" was invented by Mamoru Yamayoshi (Newman, Calif.), Liang Diao (Shenzhen, China), Zhuohang Jiang (Guangzhou, China), Minghao Zhou (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Zhuoying Zhou (Boston), Haisong Gu (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yingqiang Liu (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management and security alert system with a first store management and anti-theft subsystem include: a merchandise status monitoring module for monitoring in real time whether any merchandise leaves a shelf i...