Patents Assigned to Grabango Co.
  • Patent number: 11922390
    Abstract: A system and method for vehicle facilitated commerce comprising: collecting a payment mechanism associated with a vehicle station at a vehicle service site; collecting image data in a defined region containing the vehicle station and a defined commerce region; initializing monitoring of at least one detected user associated with the vehicle station; monitoring commerce activity of the user, which comprises of: through CV processing of image data, detecting at least one commerce activity event involving the user and updating a checkout list associated with the user based on the commerce activity event; and executing a transaction with the payment mechanism for the checkout list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Grabango Co
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Patent number: 11922259
    Abstract: A system and method for computer vision assisted physical-labels functions to use functional, large format product labeling for better computer vision (CV) identification. The product labels and detection capabilities of the system and method enhance product label detection and interpretation for use with image sensing at a distance. The product labels are non-obtrusive and can mitigate changes to sizing or visual appearance of packaging of goods or products. The system and method can enable universal product labeling for vision-based commerce and other applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Grabango Co.
    Inventor: William Glaser
  • Patent number: 11914785
    Abstract: A system and method for an associative interaction framework used for user input within an interaction platform used in an environment that includes collecting image data in the environment; through computer vision analysis of the image data, classifying objects in the environment wherein a plurality of the objects are detected users; for at least one user, detecting an associative interaction event, which includes: through computer vision analysis of the image data, detecting a first object association of the one user with a first object, and initiating an associative interaction event with a set of interaction properties including properties of the user and the first object association; and executing an action response based on the associative interaction event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Grabango Co.
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Patent number: 11844706
    Abstract: A system and method for positioning and orienting an orthopedic implant that includes an implant body; a sensor system integrated into the implant body, the sensor system comprising of at least a plurality of electrodes positioned within the implant body such there is at least one exposed region on the surface of the implant body for each electrode of the plurality of electrodes; a sensor processing control system communicatively coupled to the sensor system, the sensor processing control system configured with instructions that when executed cause the sensor processing control system to collect sensor data from the sensor system and generate adjacency data from the sensor data; and an implant feedback system, that updates state based in part on the adjacency data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Grabango Co.
    Inventors: Erik Robert Zellmer, Rory Kenneth John Murphy, John Michael Zellmer
  • Patent number: 11847689
    Abstract: A system and method for a dynamic customer checkout experience within an automated shopping environment that includes generating a virtual cart for the customer through an automatic checkout system; tracking location of the customer; generating an assessment of the virtual cart; and selecting a processing mode for the customer based in part on the assessment and executing the processing mode within at least one computing device in coordination with the location of the entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Grabango Co.
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Patent number: 11810067
    Abstract: A system and method for sensor-enabled automated inventory stocking management that can include: operating a computer vision monitoring system comprising collecting image data, and identifying, by processing the image data, products and shelf space locations of the products; maintaining a shelving property map based on the products and shelf space locations identified through the computer vision monitoring system; in association with at least one request, allocating a shelf space usage option within a shelf space management database system, wherein each shelf space usage option specifies fulfillment parameters including at least one product identity and a set of shelf space placement parameters; confirming, based on processing of updated image data from the computer vision monitoring system, fulfillment of conditions defined through the fulfillment parameters of the a shelf space usage option and, in response, performing reactionary actions in the computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Grabango Co.
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Patent number: 11805327
    Abstract: A system and method for outfitting an environment with a camera array that includes: a set of camera modules mounted and interconnected as a monitoring network within the environment; wherein each camera module instance of the set of camera modules comprises of: at least one camera, and at least a first connection port and second connection port; and wherein the camera modules of the set of camera modules serially connect through the connection ports of adjacent camera modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Grabango Co.
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Patent number: 11797921
    Abstract: System and method for dynamic marketing of products that can include collecting image data; identifying a set of product instances within the environment; for each product instance of the set of product instances, analyzing image data of the product instance and thereby determining a product presentation variation associated with the product instance; detecting user-item interactions associated with the set of product instances; and analyzing user-item interactions associated with the set of product instances according to the product presentation variations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Grabango Co.
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Patent number: 11770501
    Abstract: A system and method for a remote state following device that includes an electronic device with a controllable operating state; an imaging device; and control system that when targeted at a control interface interprets a visual state from the control interface, and modifies the operating state in coordination with the visual state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Grabango Co.
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Patent number: 11748465
    Abstract: A system and method for linking observed human activity on video to a user account of a preferred embodiment that includes: through a computer vision monitoring system, detecting and tracking a human as a computer vision modeled person within an environment, the computer vision monitoring system being part of a computing platform managing a user interaction experience; through at least one associative mechanism, establishing an association between the computer vision modeled person and at least one associative element and thereby associating the computer vision modeled person and a user-record linked through the associative element; and directing the user interaction experience at least in part based on the combination of the modeled person and at least the user-record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Grabango Co.
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Patent number: 11727479
    Abstract: A system and method for computer vision driven applications in an environment that can include collecting image data across an environment; maintaining an environmental object graph from the image data whereby maintaining the environmental object graph is an iterative process that includes: classifying objects, tracking object locations, detecting interaction events, instantiating object associations in the environmental object graph, and updating the environmental object graph by propagating change in at least one object instance across object associations; and inspecting object state for at least one object instance in the environmental object graph and executing an action associated with the object state. The system and method can be applied to automatic checkout, inventory management, and/or other system integrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Grabango Co.
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Patent number: 11715241
    Abstract: A system and method for privacy protection in vision systems that can include collecting image data from an environment; collecting spatial information corresponding to the image data; selecting a sanitization image region in the image data based at least in part on the spatial information; and applying image sanitization to the sanitization image region thereby generating sanitized image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Grabango Co.
    Inventors: William Glaser, Kevin Rauwolf
  • Patent number: 11711495
    Abstract: A system and method for visually automated interface integration that includes collecting image data; detecting a device interface source in the image data; processing the image data associated with the device interface source into an extracted interface representation; and exposing at least one access interface to the extracted interface representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Grabango Co.
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Patent number: 11531518
    Abstract: A system and method for differentially locating and modifying audio sources that includes receiving multiple audio inputs from a set of distinct locations; determining a multi-dimensional audio map from the audio inputs; acquiring a set of positional audio control inputs applied to the audio map, each audio control input comprising a location and audio processing property; and generating an audio output according to the audio control inputs and the audio inputs. The audio control inputs capable of configuration through manual, automatic, computer vision analysis, and other configuration modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Grabango Co.
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Patent number: 11514172
    Abstract: A method and system for security flow analysis of application code comprising: detecting data flows in a code base; and extracting an information flow, comprising determining a primary data flow by identifying a data flow that contains exposed data, and extending the primary data flow through descriptor data flows, wherein the descriptor data flows are associated with the set of data tracked by the primary data flow; wherein the information flow is a high level flow description that exposes the application code vulnerabilities based on the primary data flow and all associated descriptor data flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Grabango Co.
    Inventors: Fabian Yamaguchi, Markus Lottmann, Niko Schmidt, Vlad A Ionescu, Chetan Conikee
  • Patent number: 11507933
    Abstract: A system and method for applications of computer vision in linking users with virtual data that can include detecting digital interaction state of a plurality of subjects in an environment using at least one sensor-based monitoring system; detecting a contextual organization of subjects relative to an operator station; at the operator station, augmenting the user interface based on the contextual organization of subjects which comprises of at least: presenting a set of subject indicators in the user interface with the subject indicators arranged in response to contextual organization, and in response to received user interaction with at least one selected subject indicator, accessing the digital interaction state of the subject associated the at least one subject indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Grabango Co.
    Inventors: William Glaser, Scott Robertson, Daniel Bennett Lythcott-Haims, Brian Van Osdol
  • Patent number: 11501537
    Abstract: A system and method for interaction monitoring in a retail environment that includes executing a first monitoring system and thereby generating a first evaluation of customer selection of items; executing a second monitoring system and thereby generating a second evaluation of customer selection of items; determining monitoring alignment between the first evaluation and the second evaluation of a first customer; and triggering an action in response to the monitoring alignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Grabango Co.
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Patent number: 11481805
    Abstract: A system and method for digital retail marketing and couponing in a physical retail environment that includes collecting image data across a retail environment; tracking a user within the retail environment; processing the image data and detecting a customer-item interaction event in association with the user; and based in part on the customer-item interaction event, delivering content to an output interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Grabango Co.
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Patent number: 11409977
    Abstract: A system and method for computer vision assisted physical-labels functions to use functional, large format product labeling for better computer vision (CV) identification. The product labels and detection capabilities of the system and method enhance product label detection and interpretation for use with image sensing at a distance. The product labels are non-obtrusive and can mitigate changes to sizing or visual appearance of packaging of goods or products. The system and method can enable universal product labeling for vision-based commerce and other applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Grabango Co.
    Inventor: William Glaser
  • Patent number: 11302116
    Abstract: A system and method for visually automated interface integration that includes collecting image data; detecting a device interface source in the image data; processing the image data associated with the device interface source into an extracted interface representation; and exposing at least one access interface to the extracted interface representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Grabango Co.
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol