Inventory Management Patents (Class 705/28)
  • Patent number: 12260372
    Abstract: Botanical, plant-based products have a variety of labels and symbols that often do not represent active ingredients they contain. As described herein, this may be addressed using a method which comprises receiving active ingredient data for a product, determining a category for the product based on the received active ingredient data, generating one or more data outputs comprising an identifier for the product, and outputting the identifier for the product on a digital display of a computer which is local to a user. Other useful information, such as scores indicating interactions between product ingredients, may also be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Uniwyze, Inc.
    Inventors: Jokubas Ziburkus, Nkemdilim Okeke
  • Patent number: 12260428
    Abstract: A system and method for generating personalized content for a user device. In one example, a system can cause a computing device to display a first plurality of search results on a user interface of a user device based at least in part on a first request. Clickstream data can be identifier from the user interface displayed on the user device. The clickstream data comprises a user-specified sort of the first plurality of search results on the user interface. A sorting habit for the user can be determined based at least in part on the user-specified sort of the first plurality of search results on the user interface. The computing device can display on the user interface a second plurality of search results. The second plurality of search results are sorted for display based at least in part on the sorting habit for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Emily E. Gould, Kristen N. Oldenburger, Alice Park, Seth M. Ross, Mohammad Torkzahrani, Venkat Varadachary
  • Patent number: 12254696
    Abstract: A method for acquiring data relating to an object including arranging a multiplicity of cameras to view a scene, at least one reference object within the scene being viewable by at least a plurality of the multiplicity of cameras, each of the plurality of cameras acquiring at least one image of the reference object viewable thereby, finding a point of intersection of light rays illuminating each of the plurality of cameras and correlating a pixel location at which the reference object appears within each the at least one image to the light rays illuminating each of the plurality of cameras and intersecting with the region of intersection, irrespective of a three-dimensional location of the reference object within the scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: TRIGO VISION LTD.
    Inventors: Shaked Dolev, Yuval Snappir, Daniel Gabay
  • Patent number: 12254444
    Abstract: A system and method to attribute expiration dates and quantities of a product to an SKU code for pricing purposes. This method applies dynamic pricing to perishable food items. Using bulk tagging capabilities, the supermarket can attribute expiration dates to items without the pain of actually tagging the items with stickers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: WASTELESS LTD.
    Inventor: Oded Omer
  • Patent number: 12254375
    Abstract: A reading controller includes an open/closed state determination part that determines an open/closed state of a door of a load chamber of a vehicle, a tag information acquisition part that acquires tag information stored in a tag attached to a load, via a communication element that is installed in the load chamber and reads the tag, and a radio wave control part that controls a radio wave strength of radio waves emitted by the communication element for reading the tag to be a first radio wave strength when the open/closed state determination part determines that the door is in the closed state, and controls the radio wave strength to be a second radio wave strength, which is lower than the first radio wave strength, when the door is in the open state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventor: Masakazu Ishimaru
  • Patent number: 12253972
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for storing and accessing data in an information model. In some embodiments, data is stored in the information model using assets, components, and relationships, or using any other suitable transformation of the data. Each asset is a container for components. Each component stores data according to a schema that defines the organization of data in the component. Assets and components can be related to other assets and/or other components. A file can be imported into the information model by extracting data from the file, creating assets and components in the information model based on the extracted data, and wiring together the created assets and components. In addition or alternatively, an application can invoke an API to write data to the information model. An application can also invoke the API to query the information model, such as to read data from the information model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventors: Gordon Bradley, Gregory Vazzana
  • Patent number: 12254456
    Abstract: A system includes a rack storing items, an interaction device that processes the items, and a master controller that is configured to receive a communication signal from the rack indicating that items have been removed from the rack and determine based on monitoring communication signals from the interaction device whether the removed items were processed by the interaction device within a pre-configured time period from the time the items were removed from the rack. In response to determining that the items were not processed by the interaction device within a pre-configured time period, the master controller transmits an alert message including a number of the items removed from the rack and an identification associated with the items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: 7-ELEVEN, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew O'Daniel Redmond, Shahmeer Ali Mirza
  • Patent number: 12253387
    Abstract: A method of determining a configuration of a measurement volume, the method may include: generating, by at least one transmitter, a transmitted magnetic field within the measurement volume; measuring, by at least one receiver positioned, a total magnetic field in the measurement volume at at least one receiver position and generating at least one receiver output signal; generating, by a processing unit, a measured dataset; comparing, by the processing unit, the measured dataset with at least one of at least two reference configuration datasets each for determined for one of at least two different configurations of the measurement volume; and identifying, by the processing unit, a reference configuration dataset of the at least two reference configuration datasets that corresponds to the measured dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Evgeni Gurovich, Yoav Ophir
  • Patent number: 12248908
    Abstract: One variation of a method for tracking placement of products in a store includes: accessing an image recorded by a mobile robotic system within a store; detecting a shelf in a region of the image; based on an address of the shelf, retrieving a list of products assigned to the shelf by a planogram of the store; retrieving a set of template images—from a database of template images—defining visual features of products specified in the list of products; extracting a set of features from the region of the image; determining that a unit of the product is mis-stocked on the shelf in response to deviation between the set of features and features in a template image, in the set of template images, representing the product; and in response to determining that the unit of the product is mis-stocked on the shelf, generating a restocking prompt for the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Simbe Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Bogolea, Mirza Akbar Shah, Lorin Vandegrift, Luke Fraser, Jariullah Safi, Jeffrey Gee
  • Patent number: 12249165
    Abstract: An asset monitoring system includes a server, and a monitoring system mounted in a container. The monitoring system includes a camera, a transceiver, and a controller configured to control the camera to capture images of the inside of a container, and control the transceiver transmit the images to a server. The server is configured to process the images to determine loading data including at least one of an unused volume or an unused floor space inside the container, and transmit the loading data to a customer computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: AMETEK, INC.
    Inventor: Uday Shankar
  • Patent number: 12243007
    Abstract: In some aspects, baseboard management controllers (BMCs) may register with an inventory management server (IMS). After registering with the IMS, based on detecting a change in inventory monitored by a BMC, the BMC may transmit a push notification to the IMS to notify the IMS of the change. The IMS may record such information in a database, which may be accessible to a system administrator, to one or more other users or systems, or a combination thereof. For example, the system administrator or other user or system may access the IMS to obtain a listing of registered BMCs and equipment associated with the registered BMCs, to search parts based on one or more filters (such as part serial number, part number, or part location, etc.), or to get lifecycle information related to one or more parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Abhirup Seal, Chinmay Shripad Hegde, Hari Venkatachalam
  • Patent number: 12243333
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a computer implemented method for determining one or more storage boxes for storing objects. The method comprising: scanning, by an imaging sensor, a plurality of objects to be stored thereby acquiring a scan of the plurality of objects; segmenting the scan of the plurality of objects into objects; determining a three-dimensional, 3D, measure of each of the segmented objects; grouping the segmented objects into one or more groups of objects; determining, for a group of objects, one or more candidate storage boxes for storing the objects of the group of objects by calculating a total 3D measure for the objects of the group of objects by combining the 3D measure of each of the objects of the group of objects and comparing the total 3D measure for the objects of the group of objects with inner dimensions of a set of potential storage boxes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Inter IKEA Systems B.V.
    Inventor: Camila Dorin
  • Patent number: 12243004
    Abstract: An automated inventory monitoring system includes an image capture module able to create an image of an aisle of a retail store. Product images and shelf label and peg label images are identified in the image and products are associated with product labels based on the positioning of the products with respect to the labels. Based on the association between labels and products, out-of-stock products are detected and reported to the retail store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: Sarjoun Skaff, Marios Savvides, Uzair Ahmed, Nikhil Mohan, Sreena Nallamothu
  • Patent number: 12242991
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to management of inventories and supply chains and, more particularly, to a predictive inventory management system and methods of use. The method of inventory management, includes: obtaining information associated with an item; predicting demand of the item based on the obtained information; determining whether additional inventory is required based on the predicted demand of the item; and obtaining additional inventory of the item when the current inventory level does not match the predicted demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: ADP, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramsay Cole, Gil Gerstl
  • Patent number: 12243006
    Abstract: In some implementations, an autonomous vehicle may receive information associated with an order including multiple items. The autonomous vehicle may, after traveling to a first pickup location and obtaining a subset of the items in the order, identify one or more alternative pickup locations having respective inventories including one or more items that are unavailable at the first pickup location. The autonomous vehicle may generate one or more virtual credentials linked to a primary credential associated with a user that submitted the order and use the one or more virtual credentials to obtain, at each alternative pickup location, one or more items that were unavailable at the first pickup location. The autonomous vehicle may travel to a final destination to deliver the subset of the multiple items obtained from the first pickup location and the one or more items obtained from each of the one or more alternative pickup locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Rule, Kevin Osborn
  • Patent number: 12236378
    Abstract: A system and method for efficiently determining the fair-share bands of a supply chain planning problem modeled as a multi-objective hierarchical linear programming problem include a processor and memory and are configured to model a supply chain planning problem as a multi-objective hierarchal linear programming problem, assign weights at each band of a fixed number of at least two bands, determine a direction of improved band values from a value of a Key Process Indicator (KPI) calculated from an expected demand and short quantities, wherein the expected demand and short quantities are calculated from the multi-objective hierarchical linear programming problem using a sample generated by Gibbs sampling of a conditional Gaussian Bayesian Network, and generate a supply chain plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Blue Yonder Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Narayan Nandeda, Phani Bulusu, Rashid Puthiyapurayil, Tushar Shekhar, Vidhi Chugh, Vishal Shinde
  • Patent number: 12236309
    Abstract: Systems and methods of identifying wearable tags or other items within a facility. The location of the identifiable item can be calculated by the system and used to improve the efficiency of the facility or to dispatch emergency help or maintenance to the location of the badge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: United States Postal Service
    Inventors: Shahpour Ashaari, David C. Lin, Seth S. Vasa, Scott R. Bombaugh, Mario Andre Salisbury, Thomas Jay Graham, Erich Joseph Petre
  • Patent number: 12235632
    Abstract: Techniques for performing automated device activation and managing access to a workspace are described herein. While operating in an activated state, a user device (e.g., a wearable device) may be configured to modify movements of various mobile components (e.g., mobile drive units, robotic arms, etc.) of the workspace by emitting signals that cause the mobile components to stop or reduce speed when in proximity of the user device. An access controller device (ACD) may be used to restrict and/or allow access to the workspace and to perform operations for activating a user device that is attempting access. The ACD may receive light emissions from the user device that may be used to initiate a process for activating the user device. When the ACD receives an indication that the user device is operating in the activated state, the ACD may execute operations for enabling access to the workspace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Seth R Kaufman, Arnav Kavadia, Nathaniel William Hixon, Monish Narendra Kapadia
  • Patent number: 12231511
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing event log data. An example event log processing method includes receiving an event log comprising a plurality of event records describing events that have occurred on each of one or more computer systems over a period of time; converting the event log into a graph, comprising: normalizing the plurality of event records, including anonymizing a unique identifier value in each event record and replacing a variable value in each event record with a predetermined value; representing each normalized event record as one or more nodes in the graph; and generating a plurality of event clusters, wherein each event cluster includes an aggregated group of nodes and is generated based on common attributes of and hierarchical relationships between the normalized event records represented by the nodes in the aggregated group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Khai Nhu Pham
  • Patent number: 12229718
    Abstract: An out-of-stock detection system notifies store management that a product is out of stock. The system captures images of a shelf and determines the position product labels thereon. For each product label, a bounding box is generated based on the position of each product label on the shelf. The system then identifies a product for each product label based on information within each product label and, for each product label, stores a product identified for each bounding box. Accordingly, the system performs an out-of-stock detection process that includes capturing additional image data of the shelf periodically that includes each bounding box, providing a portion of the additional image data for each bounding box to a model trained to determine whether the bounding box contains products, sending a notification for a product determined to be out of stock to a store client device based on output from the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Focal Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Francois Chaubard
  • Patent number: 12229720
    Abstract: A warehouse from which shoppers fulfill orders for an online concierge system maintains an online concierge system-specific portion for which the online concierge system specifies placement of items in regions. To place items in the online concierge system-specific portion, the online concierge system accounts for co-occurrences of different items in orders and measures of similarity between different items. From the co-occurrences of items, the online concierge system generates an affinity graph. The online concierge system also generates a colocation graph based on distances between different regions in the online concierge system-specific portion. Using an optimization function with the affinity graph and the colocation graph, the online concierge system selects regions within the online concierge system-specific portion for different items to minimize an amount of time for shoppers to obtain items in the online concierge-system specific portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Maplebear Inc.
    Inventors: Joey Loi, Viswa Mani Kiran Peddinti
  • Patent number: 12230032
    Abstract: A method for acquiring data relating to an object including arranging a multiplicity of cameras to view a scene, at least one reference object within the scene being viewable by at least a plurality of the multiplicity of cameras, each of the plurality of cameras acquiring at least one image of the reference object viewable thereby, finding a point of intersection of light rays illuminating each of the plurality of cameras and correlating a pixel location at which the reference object appears within each the at least one image to the light rays illuminating each of the plurality of cameras and intersecting with the region of intersection, irrespective of a three-dimensional location of the reference object within the scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: TRIGO VISION LTD.
    Inventors: Rita Paverman Kashani, Shaked Dolev, Yuval Snappir, Daniel Gabay, Sivan Keret
  • Patent number: 12229789
    Abstract: In order to analyze the purchasing situation from the various kinds of information regarding the products sold on the mall style shopping site, a purchasing analysis system for analyzing purchase status of a target product sold on a mall style shopping site has a trading history acquisition unit acquiring information related to a trading history of the target product on the mall style shopping site. The system also has an advertising information acquisition unit acquiring advertising indicators of the target product. Further, the system has an output unit displaying the information related to the trading history and the advertising indicators on a same time axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: SHIRUSHI INC.
    Inventors: Hideoki Nagai, Yoshiro Shimoda, Hiroto Takeno
  • Patent number: 12220813
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for performing a calibration test of an obstacle detection sensor of a drive unit are described. An example system includes a calibration region and at least one drive unit. The calibration region is disposed in an environment and includes a calibration apparatus. The at least one drive unit is operable to autonomously move throughout the environment. The at least one drive unit includes a sensor configured to detect one or more objects within the environment. The at least one drive unit is configured to autonomously transition to the calibration region upon detecting at least one predetermined condition, and perform a calibration test of the first sensor at the calibration region using the calibration apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dincer Bozkaya, Sara Jean Woo, William Joseph Klein, Jing Ma, Gregory Cartagena, Justin Croyle, Gabriel Hebert, Fahrudin Alagic, Stephen A. Caldara
  • Patent number: 12223747
    Abstract: A control device includes a control unit configured to: acquire a first image, a second image and report information, the first image being an image resulting from photographing a vehicle before a user gets in the vehicle, the second image being an image resulting from photographing the vehicle after the user gets out of the vehicle, the report information being relevant to a change in a state of the vehicle and being reported by the user; detect the change in the state of the vehicle based on the first image and the second image; and evaluate the user based on the detected change and the report information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ai Miyata
  • Patent number: 12223532
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to computer science, data science, software, and computer program and platform architectures, including processing data received at an adaptive distribution platform to identify a point of time, initiating automatic replenishment of the item by the adaptive distribution platform if the point of time is substantially within the date range, transmitting a message to a client, the message including a characteristic of the item and a control user input, receiving a response to the message, processing the response to determine whether to adjust the scheduled delivery to replenish the item, generating a confirmation message to the client, transmitting a control signal from the adaptive distribution platform to a system, and adapting a predicted distribution event associated with the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: OrderGroove, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Fredrich, Michael Bifolco, Greg E. Alvo, Ofir Shalom
  • Patent number: 12223522
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for probabilistic search biasing and recommendations. A system including at least one processor may be configured to receive an input relating to an identified item, generate a database query based on the input, and receive a response to the database query. The response may include information on comparable items similar to the identified item, and corresponding metadata for the comparable items. The corresponding metadata may include a range of values corresponding to the comparable items. The system may be further configured to generate a probability score for at least two values of the range of values, based at least on the corresponding metadata for the comparable items. The system may be further configured to output at least a suggested value based on at least the generated probability score for the range of values and prompt for further input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: MERCARI, INC.
    Inventors: Byong Mok Oh, Dhruv Mehrotra, Chiaki Osaka, Naoya Makino, Patrick Michael Wiseman, Minami Sueyasu
  • Patent number: 12223710
    Abstract: A device configured to capture a first image of an item on a platform using a camera and to determine a first number of pixels in the first image that corresponds with the item. The device is further configured to capture a first depth image of an item on the platform using a three-dimensional (3D) sensor and to determine a second number of pixels within the first depth image that corresponds with the item. The device is further configured to determine that the difference between the first number of pixels in the first image and the second number of pixels in the first depth image is less than the difference threshold value, to extract the plurality of pixels corresponding with the item in the first image from the first image to generate a second image, and to output the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: 7-ELEVEN, INC.
    Inventors: Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy, Sumedh Vilas Datar, Crystal Maung, Shantanu Yadunath Thakurdesai
  • Patent number: 12223258
    Abstract: A system for electronic data interchange (EDI) management includes a memory for storing the EDI document data and a machine learning model representing a set of features of EDI documents and a corresponding status. The system further includes a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions for: accessing an EDI file, the EDI file comprising envelope metadata for an envelope and a first EDI document: and translating the EDI file into a first translated EDI document containing the envelope metadata and a set of EDI document data extracted from the first EDI document, the first translated EDI document formatted according to a hierarchical structure comprising attributes translatable into features processable by the machine learning model to determine a status of the first EDI document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Open Text GXS ULC
    Inventor: Roger David Moyers
  • Patent number: 12223466
    Abstract: Cameras capture images of shelves/displays having items. The images are processed to identify real-time item counts on the shelves and/or empty or partially empty shelves with less than a configured number of items. Notifications or messages regarding item counts and/or empty shelving conditions are sent through an Application Programming Interface (API) to consuming services in accordance with custom defined rules. In an embodiment, real-time item counts and/or empty shelving conditions are dynamically reported through the API based on on-demand requests from the consuming services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: NCR Voyix Corporation
    Inventors: Qian Yang, Frank Douglas Hinek, Brent Vance Zucker
  • Patent number: 12217319
    Abstract: A method of interfacing a discrete digital workshop information system is provided, where the information system includes mutual integration among product lifecycle management (PLM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), a manufacturing execution system (MES), an energy management system (EMS), and a warehouse management system (WMS) of a finished product. A method of interfacing based on a data dictionary fusing different function datasets is proposed to solve the problems of a current discrete industry information system, such as single in function, a small amount of integrated information, a large number of “information islands” existing, incapable of achieving full-process informatization management and control, difficulty in product quality tracing and the like. By the method, it is possible to realize flexible production in a discrete manufacturing industry, precise management and control of a production process, significant improvement in product quality and significant reduction in operating costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: Machinery Technology Development Co., Ltd, Instrumentation Technology And Economy Institute
    Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Bin Xu, Hua Zhao, Dan Liu, Junguang Tan, Jian Jiao, Yedan Na, Pengfei Niu
  • Patent number: 12217451
    Abstract: A management apparatus (100) includes: an area computation unit (102) that acquires an area of a displayable region of a display shelf in which a product can be displayed, and computes an area ratio of an area of a non-display region of the display shelf in which the product detected from a captured image is not displayed to the area of the display shelf; a decision unit (104) that decides whether to make a notification according to the area ratio; and a notification unit (106) that makes the notification when it is decided that the notification is to be made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Uchimura, Yuji Tahara, Rina Tomita, Yasuyo Kazo
  • Patent number: 12211004
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a system for tracking removal or placement of items at inventory locations with a materials handling facility. In some instances, a user may remove an item from an inventory location and the inventory management system may detect that removal and update a user item list associated with the user to include an item identifier representative of the removed item. Likewise, if the user places an item at an inventory location, the inventory management system may detect that placement and update the user item list to remove an item identifier representative of the placed item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dilip Kumar, Elie Micah Kornfield, Alexander Clark Prater, Sridhar Boyapati, Xiaofeng Ren, Chang Yuan
  • Patent number: 12210999
    Abstract: A network software system that enables the autonomous operation of mobile retail storefronts within a regional delivery area. The system connects local retailers with consumers by handling order placement, real-time inventory tracking, and delivery coordination. An order server communicates with the mobile storefronts to receive orders, determine consumer geolocation, calculate distances, and assign the closest mobile storefront based on proximity and available inventory. A mobile computer application aboard each storefront manages delivery scheduling, navigation, order processing, and intelligent communication with consumers, providing real-time updates and automated correspondence. The system supports various mobile inventories and automates all stages of order fulfillment, including the ability to direct mobile storefronts to areas with high concentrations of preferred customers. It is also capable of fully autonomous operation using self-driving technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Inventor: James Beach-Drummond
  • Patent number: 12212468
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and processing nodes for managing network topology perform and/or comprise: receiving user metrics associated with a community of interest; obtaining network-associated requirements for each of a plurality of services deployed on a network, at least a portion of the plurality of services being metaverse services; obtaining computing-system-associated requirements for each of the plurality of services; and based on the user metrics, the network-associated requirements, and the computing-system-associated requirements, generating a network-site implementation plan recommendation that minimizes one or more cost functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Zhisheng Chen, Marouane Balmakhtar
  • Patent number: 12209870
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method performed by data processing apparatuses includes receiving stored map data corresponding to a digital map, identifying a discrepancy between the digital map and a physical space which the digital map represents, updating the digital map to correct the identified discrepancy, storing the updated digital map, and optionally providing the updated digital may for presentation on a device display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Lissick, Eric Runquist, Clayton Black
  • Patent number: 12205417
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are described for validating object detection. For example, an apparatus can receive a message from a wireless device. The message includes object data corresponding to one or more objects reported by the wireless device to be within a field-of-view of the apparatus. The apparatus can further determine, based on the object data, whether the wireless device has misreported at least one of the one or more objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Soumya Das, Mohammad Nekoui, Jonathan Petit, Dan Vassilovski
  • Patent number: 12205067
    Abstract: An information processing device is configured to perform an operation of a delivery service in which an inside of a vehicle, a building, or a facility used by a user is designated as a delivery destination of a package, or perform a support of the operation. The information processing device includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on an accommodation situation of an object accommodated inside the vehicle, the building, or the facility, and an accommodation situation notification unit configured to notify the user of the accommodation situation based on the information acquired by the information acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Endo, Yuichiro Haruna
  • Patent number: 12205070
    Abstract: A product return/replacement device performs return/replacement of products, the device having a computer and a printer. The computer is equipped with: a read unit that reads a return/replacement reception code that indicates that the consumer has made a return/replacement reservation; a communication unit that transmits the return/replacement code read by the read unit to an external return/replacement server, and receives from the return/replacement server a delivery code for managing the delivery status of the product; and a processor for causing the printer to print a label displaying the delivery code transmitted from the return/replacement serve. The consumer can affix the printed label to the product for return/replacement, and when the read unit has read the delivery code displayed on the label affixed to the product, the communication unit transmits the delivery code read by the read unit to the external return/replacement server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Kusaba, Yoshihiko Ryuu
  • Patent number: 12205408
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for identifying interactions and events associated with inventory locations. For instance, system(s) may receive image data representing a user interacting with an inventory location. The system(s) may then generate heatmap data indicating a first portion of the image data that represents the inventory location and feature data indicating a second portion of the image data that represents the user. Next, the system(s) may analyze the heatmap data with respect to the feature data to determine that the second portion of the image data corresponds to the first portion of the image data. As such, the system(s) may determine that the user is interacting with the inventory location. Based on the determination, the system(s) may analyze the first portion of the image data to identify an event that occurs at the inventory location, such as the user removing an item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Venkataraman Santhanam, Ejaz Ahmed, Gregory Hager
  • Patent number: 12205054
    Abstract: The automated system provides automated and remote monitoring, control, communication, and management of recreational vehicle parking facilities, providing guests access to electric, water and sewer services via onsite hookup pedestals. Guests use a computerized reservation system to reserve a parking site. The reservation information is provided to the control system for the hookup pedestals. The control system monitors parking site sensors and activates and deactivates the hookup pedestals via smart switches based on the reservation information and sensor data indicating an arrival and departure, respectively. When a reservation window ends or the site is vacated, the system deactivates the hookup pedestals to end access to the utility services while the sensors remain active. When sites are vacated early, the system determines whether there is sufficient time until the next reservation include the sites' open time to the reservation system's inventory of open sites that are available for new reservations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Inventor: James Dean Turntine
  • Patent number: 12205144
    Abstract: A system comprises a network and a message management system. The message management system can apply a predictive model to generate a broadcast event message for transmission over the network to solicit message requests for entry into a bidding process. The bidding process can be associated with an event in the region and a bidding timeframe. The message management system can receive message requests for the event during the bidding timeframe, and select one of the message requests from a selected requestor after the expiration of the bidding timeframe. The message management system can receive an event message from the selected requestor. The message management system can present the event message via the communication service. The event message can be provided at an access point for the Wi-Fi service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Austin Walters, Jeremy Goodsitt, Vincent Pham
  • Patent number: 12205105
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments are related to blockchain asset token management systems, and in particular, to Multiple Decentralized Tokenization with Personal Control (MDTPC). MDTPC allows users to determine how and when asset token evaluation is performed, and also allows users to determine which token management services they wish to use to manage and store their asset token and related data. In embodiments, multiple blockchain token management services are utilized in conjunction with individual digital wallets to share token data and validate ownership of tokens. A registry service is used to ensure visibility of tokens across multiple token management services, which increases the likelihood of identifying the rightful owner of asset tokens. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Inventor: Daniel Thomas Harrison
  • Patent number: 12204953
    Abstract: A method for preventing race conditions in a database comprises: setting a first numerical entry and a second numerical entry in a database; receiving a first online transaction; responsive to determining a lock of the database is in progress due to a second received online transaction, suspending the first online transaction; removing the lock after the second received online transaction is completed; responsive to determining that the first entry is greater than zero, decrementing the first entry by an amount indicated in the first online transaction; responsive to determining the second entry is greater than zero, decrementing the second entry; processing the first transaction; and generating an online transaction record for the first transaction and storing the generated record in an online transaction database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: STRIPE, INC.
    Inventors: Peter Wang, Alexander Thiemann, Adam Eagle, Hongshan Zhou, Ji Huang
  • Patent number: 12198096
    Abstract: A method for use in a computing device, comprising: obtaining a pooling plan, the pooling plan identifying a respective pooling warehouse for at least a first article; receiving a first data set that identifies one or more second articles that can be substituted with the first article; receiving a second data set that identifies: (i) local demand for the first article at the pooling warehouse, (ii) local demand for the first article at one or more unplanned warehouses for the first article, and (iii) local demand for the second articles at one or more unplanned warehouses for the second articles; calculating an efficiency score for the pooling plan by evaluating a model for gauging an efficiency of the pooling plan, the model being evaluated based on the pooling plan, the first data set, and the second data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Mario Cornejo Barriere, Babak Farmanesh
  • Patent number: 12198518
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a base station of a security system, an identification of a shipment package, the identification received from a first security sensor that is part of the security system. The method further includes adding, by the base station, a shipment device of the shipment package as a second security sensor of the security system. The method further includes configuring, by the base station, the shipment device in protect-mode, wherein the shipment device sounds an alarm in response to the shipment being displaced by at least a predetermined distance when in the protect-mode. The method further includes reconfiguring, by the base station, the shipment device in safe-mode in response to receiving, from a customer associated with the shipment package, a confirmation signal that the shipment package has been safely received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Cloud Software, LLC
    Inventors: Devadatta Bodas, Kanchan Bodas, Rajiv Nashikkar, Tanmay Dharmadhikari
  • Patent number: 12198051
    Abstract: Collaborative filtering systems based on variational autoencoders (VAEs) are provided. VAEs may be trained on row-wise data without necessarily training a paired VAE on column-wise data (or vice-versa), and may optionally be trained via minibatches. The row-wise VAE models the output of the corresponding column-based VAE as a set of parameters and uses these parameters in decoding. In some implementations, a paired VAE is provided which receives column-wise data and models row-wise parameters; each of the paired VAEs may bind their learned column- or row-wise parameters to the output of the corresponding VAE. The paired VAEs may optionally be trained via minibatches. Unobserved data may be explicitly modelled. Methods for performing inference with such VAE-based collaborative filtering systems are also disclosed, as are example applications to search and anomaly detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: D-WAVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: William G. Macready, Jason T. Rolfe
  • Patent number: 12197978
    Abstract: Systems and methods for unique device identification for devices are disclosed. An example system comprises a processor causing a Unique Device Identification Platform (UDIP) to generate, in real-time, for a first device, a unique device identifier (UDI), based on at least one of an article number associated with a category of devices that first device forms part of, serial number of first device, manufacturing batch number of first device, and a shelf-life expiry date. The processor may cause the UDIP to track, based on the generated UDI, a first device in its respective supply chain to trace a current location of first device. Further, the processor may cause the UDIP to render, in response to a request message from a user at a first-time instance, based on a trace of first device using UDI at the time instance, an output indicative of production attributes, component attributes, and supply chain attributes of the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Soumya Shalini, Ninad Datta Patil, Rupak Udayanan, Ashok Nadimpalli, Agalya Arjunan
  • Patent number: 12198081
    Abstract: A work request interface receives work request data for a power generation system. The work request data includes a work request having data characterizing equipment of the power generation system and a first state of the equipment. The work request interface processes the work request to modify at least one field in the work request to provide a standardized work request. The standardized work request includes data characterizing operations needed to change a state of the equipment from the first state to a second state. A work order generator receives the standardized work request and determines a priority of the standardized work request. The work order generator determines a mode of operation of the power generation system needed to change the state of the equipment from the first state to the second state and generates a set of work orders for the work request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignees: FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, INVENTUS HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Ricardo L. Rivera, Kevin K. Ogden, Michael E. Willis, Carlos A. Lizano, Sally A. Rosen, Randall R. Wagner, Faye G. Spindler
  • Patent number: 12197399
    Abstract: Disclosed below are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for managing and classifying assets in an information technology (“IT”) environment using a tag-based approach. The disclosed tag-based classification techniques can be implemented through a graphical user interface. Embodiments of the disclosed tag-based classification techniques can be used to allow a user to easily and quickly select and perform actions on groups of one or more assets (e.g., monitor policies, perform upgrades, etc.). For example, the tag-based classification techniques can automatically classify assets into “tag sets” (or “tagged sets”) based on node properties or user-selected criteria or conditions (e.g., criteria or conditions that are established in a user-created tagging profile or rule). The tagged assets can then be further filtered to identify even deeper relationships between the assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: TRIPWIRE, INC.
    Inventors: David M. Whitlock, Mark A. Little, Julie Booth, Chyna Trople