Patents by Inventor Michael A. Garner
Michael A. Garner 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).
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Publication number: 20250348922Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, devices, applications, and methods are provided herein useful to provide retrieval of products within a retail store and control a point of sale system to execute purchase of a product list in conjunction with a mobile device. A device control circuit of the mobile device is configured to receive a proposed product list from a respective customer; determine a suggested product list based on the proposed product list and a weighted average of a plurality of variables; determine a shopping route for the suggested product list, reduce the duration of the shopping route if possible, acquire payment from the respective customer for products on a final product list, and control the point of sale system to execute purchase of the products on the final product list on behalf of the respective customer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2025Publication date: November 13, 2025Inventors: Michael A. Garner, Matthew B. Lindsey, Robert Lutczyk
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Patent number: 12322155Abstract: Some embodiments provide retail inventory identification systems, comprising: a mobile product mapping system comprising: a transport system, a tower housing, and a cluster processing system comprising: a plurality of product identifying (PI) systems each in different orientations and directed along different fields of view, and a mobile control circuit; wherein the PI systems each comprise an image capture system, and a location determination system, wherein each of the plurality of PI systems is configured to: capture images of products supported on product support systems; and locally process the images comprising applying a plurality of different machine learning modeling techniques, to infer identification of multiple products and generate product identifying information in association with location information; and the mobile control circuit is configured to generate product identifying mapping of products as the product mapping system moves; and communicate the generated product identifying mapping toType: GrantFiled: July 19, 2022Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Monisha Elumalai, Jody P. Cook, Michael A. Garner, Francisco J. Rodriguez, Luis R. Rosario-Berrios, Christopher M. Overcash, Ravi Kumar Dalal, Daniel R. Bersak, Sandip Pandey, Ella Saar, Trenton J. Duke
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Patent number: 12165101Abstract: In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products, comprising: a model training system configured to: identify a customer; access an associated customer profile; access and apply a set of filtering rules to a product database based on customer data; generate a listing of products specific to the customer; access and apply a model training set of rules to train a machine learning model based on the listing of products and corresponding image data for each of the products in the listing of products; and communicate the trained model to the portable user device associated with first customer.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2024Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Michael A. Garner, Priyanka Paliwal
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Patent number: 12118509Abstract: In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize products in a physical facility through a portable device that comprises a decision control circuit configured to: process each frame of the subset of frames by multiple modeling techniques each relative to a corresponding image attribute and obtain a corresponding product identification probability; determine corresponding aggregated identification probabilities of the first product based on the product identification probabilities; collectively evaluate the aggregated identification probabilities and identify when a predefined relationship with a collective threshold probability exists; and cause an image of the first product to be displayed in response to identifying that one or more of the aggregated identification probabilities having the predefined relationship with the collective threshold probability.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventor: Michael A. Garner
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Publication number: 20240144180Abstract: In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products, comprising: a model training system configured to: identify a customer; access an associated customer profile; access and apply a set of filtering rules to a product database based on customer data; generate a listing of products specific to the customer; access and apply a model training set of rules to train a machine learning model based on the listing of products and corresponding image data for each of the products in the listing of products; and communicate the trained model to the portable user device associated with first customer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Michael A. Garner, Priyanka Paliwal
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Patent number: 11907901Abstract: In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products, comprising: a model training system configured to: identify a customer; access an associated customer profile; access and apply a set of filtering rules to a product database based on customer data; generate a listing of products specific to the customer; access and apply a model training set of rules to train a machine learning model based on the listing of products and corresponding image data for each of the products in the listing of products; and communicate the trained model to the portable user device associated with first customer.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Michael A. Garner, Priyanka Paliwal
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Publication number: 20240029400Abstract: Some embodiments provide retail inventory identification systems, comprising: a mobile product mapping system comprising: a transport system, a tower housing, and a cluster processing system comprising: a plurality of product identifying (PI) systems each in different orientations and directed along different fields of view, and a mobile control circuit; wherein the PI systems each comprise an image capture system, and a location determination system, wherein each of the plurality of PI systems is configured to: capture images of products supported on product support systems; and locally process the images comprising applying a plurality of different machine learning modeling techniques, to infer identification of multiple products and generate product identifying information in association with location information; and the mobile control circuit is configured to generate product identifying mapping of products as the product mapping system moves; and communicate the generated product identifying mapping toType: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2022Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Monisha Elumalai, Jody P. Cook, Michael A. Garner, Francisco J. Rodriguez, Luis R. Rosario-Berrios, Christopher M. Overcash, Ravi Kumar Dalal, Daniel R. Bersak, Sandip Pandey, Ella Saar, Trenton J. Duke
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Publication number: 20230281559Abstract: In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize products in a physical facility through a portable device that comprises a decision control circuit configured to: process each frame of the subset of frames by multiple modeling techniques each relative to a corresponding image attribute and obtain a corresponding product identification probability; determine corresponding aggregated identification probabilities of the first product based on the product identification probabilities; collectively evaluate the aggregated identification probabilities and identify when a predefined relationship with a collective threshold probability exists; and cause an image of the first product to be displayed in response to identifying that one or more of the aggregated identification probabilities having the predefined relationship with the collective threshold probability.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Inventor: Michael A. Garner
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Patent number: 11687874Abstract: In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products in a physical retail store through a portable device that comprises a decision control circuit configured to: process each frame of the subset of frames by multiple modeling techniques each relative to a corresponding image attribute and obtain a corresponding product identification probability; determine corresponding aggregated identification probabilities of the first product based on the product identification probabilities; collectively evaluate the aggregated identification probabilities and identify when a predefined relationship with a collective threshold probability exists; and cause an image of the first product to be displayed in response to identifying that one or more of the aggregated identification probabilities having the predefined relationship with the collective threshold probability.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventor: Michael A. Garner
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Publication number: 20230177461Abstract: In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products, comprising: a model training system configured to: identify a customer; access an associated customer profile; access and apply a set of filtering rules to a product database based on customer data; generate a listing of products specific to the customer; access and apply a model training set of rules to train a machine learning model based on the listing of products and corresponding image data for each of the products in the listing of products; and communicate the trained model to the portable user device associated with first customer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2023Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Michael A. Garner, Priyanka Paliwal
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Patent number: 11593783Abstract: In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products, comprising: a model training system configured to: identify a customer; access an associated customer profile; access and apply a set of filtering rules to a product database based on customer data; generate a listing of products specific to the customer; access and apply a model training set of rules to train a machine learning model based on the listing of products and corresponding image data for each of the products in the listing of products; and communicate the trained model to the portable user device associated with first customer.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Michael A. Garner, Priyanka Paliwal
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Publication number: 20220277382Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, devices, applications, and methods are provided herein useful to provide retrieval of products within a retail store and control a point of sale system to execute purchase of a product list in conjunction with a mobile device. A device control circuit of the mobile device is configured to receive a proposed product list from a respective customer; determine a suggested product list based on the proposed product list and a weighted average of a plurality of variables; determine a shopping route for the suggested product list, reduce the duration of the shopping route if possible, acquire payment from the respective customer for products on a final product list, and control the point of sale system to execute purchase of the products on the final product list on behalf of the respective customer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Michael A. Garner, Matthew B. Lindsey, Robert Lutczyk
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Publication number: 20210248581Abstract: In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products, comprising: a model training system configured to: identify a customer; access an associated customer profile; access and apply a set of filtering rules to a product database based on customer data; generate a listing of products specific to the customer; access and apply a model training set of rules to train a machine learning model based on the listing of products and corresponding image data for each of the products in the listing of products; and communicate the trained model to the portable user device associated with first customer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventors: Michael A. Garner, Priyanka Paliwal
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Patent number: 10990950Abstract: In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products, comprising: a model training system configured to: identify a customer; access an associated customer profile; access and apply a set of filtering rules to a product database based on customer data; generate a listing of products specific to the customer; access and apply a model training set of rules to train a machine learning model based on the listing of products and corresponding image data for each of the products in the listing of products; and communicate the trained model to the portable user device associated with first customer.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Michael A. Garner, Priyanka Paliwal
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Publication number: 20210110371Abstract: In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products in a physical retail store through a portable device that comprises a decision control circuit configured to: process each frame of the subset of frames by multiple modeling techniques each relative to a corresponding image attribute and obtain a corresponding product identification probability; determine corresponding aggregated identification probabilities of the first product based on the product identification probabilities; collectively evaluate the aggregated identification probabilities and identify when a predefined relationship with a collective threshold probability exists; and cause an image of the first product to be displayed in response to identifying that one or more of the aggregated identification probabilities having the predefined relationship with the collective threshold probability.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Inventor: Michael A. Garner
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Patent number: 10872326Abstract: In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products in a physical retail store through a portable device that comprises a decision control circuit configured to: process each frame of the subset of frames by multiple modeling techniques each relative to a corresponding image attribute and obtain a corresponding product identification probability; determine corresponding aggregated identification probabilities of the first product based on the product identification probabilities; collectively evaluate the aggregated identification probabilities and identify when a predefined relationship with a collective threshold probability exists; and cause an image of the first product to be displayed in response to identifying that one or more of the aggregated identification probabilities having the predefined relationship with the collective threshold probability.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventor: Michael A. Garner
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Publication number: 20200272856Abstract: In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products, comprising: a model training system configured to: identify a customer; access an associated customer profile; access and apply a set of filtering rules to a product database based on customer data; generate a listing of products specific to the customer; access and apply a model training set of rules to train a machine learning model based on the listing of products and corresponding image data for each of the products in the listing of products; and communicate the trained model to the portable user device associated with first customer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Michael A. Garner, Priyanka Paliwal
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Publication number: 20200273013Abstract: In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products in a physical retail store through a portable device that comprises a decision control circuit configured to: process each frame of the subset of frames by multiple modeling techniques each relative to a corresponding image attribute and obtain a corresponding product identification probability; determine corresponding aggregated identification probabilities of the first product based on the product identification probabilities; collectively evaluate the aggregated identification probabilities and identify when a predefined relationship with a collective threshold probability exists; and cause an image of the first product to be displayed in response to identifying that one or more of the aggregated identification probabilities having the predefined relationship with the collective threshold probability.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventor: Michael A. Garner