Patents by Inventor Robert W. Utting, Jr.

Robert W. Utting, Jr. 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).

  • Apparatus and method of maintaining accurate perpetual inventory information
    Patent number: 11093893
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for use in managing product inventory, comprising: a control circuit; a memory storing instructions to cause the control circuit to perform: obtain a reference on-hand quantity value; determine an estimated on-hand adjustment value corresponding to a predicted error between the reference on-hand quantity value and a predicted actual on-hand value; receive a retail store supplied on-hand adjustment value; set an on-hand adjustment value to the retail store supplied on-hand adjustment value when the retail store supplied on-hand adjustment value is within an on-hand variation threshold; modify the estimated on-hand adjustment value as a function of a difference between the retail store supplied on-hand adjustment value and the estimated on-hand adjustment value when the retail store supplied on-hand adjustment value is not within the on-hand variation threshold, and set the on-hand adjustment value to the modified estimated on-hand adjustment value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory D. Dixon, Ashley D. Taylor, Robert W. Utting, Jr., Jesse L. Eaton, Sarah L. Im
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MAINTAINING ACCURATE PERPETUAL INVENTORY INFORMATION
    Publication number: 20180005174
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for use in managing product inventory, comprising: a control circuit; a memory storing instructions to cause the control circuit to perform: obtain a reference on-hand quantity value; determine an estimated on-hand adjustment value corresponding to a predicted error between the reference on-hand quantity value and a predicted actual on-hand value; receive a retail store supplied on-hand adjustment value; set an on-hand adjustment value to the retail store supplied on-hand adjustment value when the retail store supplied on-hand adjustment value is within an on-hand variation threshold; modify the estimated on-hand adjustment value as a function of a difference between the retail store supplied on-hand adjustment value and the estimated on-hand adjustment value when the retail store supplied on-hand adjustment value is not within the on-hand variation threshold, and set the on-hand adjustment value to the modified estimated on-hand adjustment value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Gregory D. Dixon, Ashley D. Taylor, Robert W. Utting, Jr., Jesse L. Eaton, Sarah L. Im