Patents by Inventor Anupkumar Rao

Anupkumar Rao has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Retail product out-of-stock detection and dynamic scripting
    Patent number: 8321303
    Abstract: The invention includes a method of detecting out-of-stock conditions for retail products, and for dynamically updating associated replenishment plans, sales forecasts, and event scripts for product stocking events such as turn stock products, promotional products, new product introductions and modular resets. The invention accesses RFID data associated with product stocking events for identifying product movements in a retail supply chain and within a retail store. The invention optionally accesses point-of-sale and perpetual inventory data for detecting out-of-stock conditions. The invention also includes a method for dynamically improving product layout and optimized planograms based on out-of-stock velocity detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Checkpoint Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Venkat Krishnamurthy, Jasjit Singh Mangat, Peter Billante, Sachin Kumar Bansal, Anupkumar Rao