Patents by Inventor William Craig Robinson, JR.

William Craig Robinson, 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).

  • Publication number: 20240119735
    Abstract: Systems and methods of monitoring inventory of a product storage facility include an image capture device configured to move about the product storage areas of the product storage facility and capture images of the product storage areas from various angles. A computing device coupled to the image capture device obtains the images of the product storage areas captured by the image capture device and processes the obtained images of the product storage areas to detect individual products captured in the obtained images. Based on detection of the individual products captured in the images, the computing device analyzes each of the obtained images to detect one or more adjacent product storage structures (shelves, pallets, etc.) and identifies and selects a single image that fully shows a product storage structure of interest and fully shows each of the products stored on the product storage structure of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Lingfeng Zhang, Mingquan Yuan, Paul Lewis Lobo, Avinash M. Jade, Zhichun Xiao, William Craig Robinson, JR., Zhaoliang Duan, Wei Wang, Han Zhang, Raghava Balusu, Tianyi Mao
  • Publication number: 20230343326
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide retail product ordering systems comprising: a user computing device comprising an application executed by a device control circuit to: receive an audible utterance; controls a product identifier application interface to: apply a tokenizer model and obtain a set of individual search words; apply a series of featurizer models to the search words to generate features; and apply a classifier and extractor model based on the features and generate multiple requested product entities each comprising a respective sub-set of the position labeled product terms; wherein the device control circuit is further configured to access a purchase history database, confirm an accuracy of each of requested product entities relative to a purchase history, generate a listing of determined product identifiers corresponding to the confirmed set of the multiple requested product entities, and control a display system of the user computing device to render the listing of determined product identifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Praneeth Gubbala, Xuan Zhang, Bahula Bosetti, Priya Ashok Kumar Choudhary, Dong T. Nguyen, Shivraj V. Kodak, William Craig Robinson, JR.
  • Patent number: 11487821
    Abstract: In some embodiments, methods and systems are provided for processing information requests of workers at a retail facility and retrieving information associated with the retail facility based on the information requests. An electronic device permits a worker at the retail facility to input an information request in association with at least one worker at the retail facility or at least one product at the retail facility. A computing device receives, from the electronic device, electronic data representative of a scope of the information request, analyzes this electronic data to determine the scope of the information request, obtain relevant information from one or more databases, and transmits the obtained information to the electronic device, which in turn outputs the information to the worker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: William Craig Robinson, Jr., Dong T. Nguyen, Mekhala M. Vithala, Makeshwaran Sampath, Spencer S. Seeger, Bahula Bosetti, Praneeth Gubbala, Songshan Li, Santosh Kumar Kurashetty, Srihari Attuluri, Venkata Maguluri, Lindsay S. Leftwich, George E. Loring
  • Publication number: 20200349200
    Abstract: In some embodiments, methods and systems are provided for processing information requests of workers at a retail facility and retrieving information associated with the retail facility based on the information requests. An electronic device permits a worker at the retail facility to input an information request in association with at least one worker at the retail facility or at least one product at the retail facility. A computing device receives, from the electronic device, electronic data representative of a scope of the information request, analyzes this electronic data to determine the scope of the information request, obtain relevant information from one or more databases, and transmits the obtained information to the electronic device, which in turn outputs the information to the worker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: William Craig Robinson, JR., Dong T. Nguyen, Mekhala M. Vithala, Makeshwaran Sampath, Spencer S. Seeger, Bahula Bosetti, Praneeth Gubbala, Songshan Li, Santosh Kumar Kurashetty, Srihari Attuluri, Venkata Maguluri, Lindsay S. Leftwich, George E. Loring