Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for tracking stock level within a store
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Application No.: US16792101Application Date: 2020-02-14
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Publication No.: US11276034B2Publication Date: 2022-03-15
- Inventor: Mirza Akbar Shah , Bradley Bogolea , Jeffrey Gee
- Applicant: Simbe Robotics, Inc
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: Simbe Robotics, Inc
- Current Assignee: Simbe Robotics, Inc
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: Run8 Patent Group, LLC
- Agent Peter Miller; Ryan D. Smith
- Main IPC: G06Q10/08
- IPC: G06Q10/08 ; G05D1/02 ; G06K9/00

Abstract:
One variation of a method for tracking stock level within a store includes: dispatching a robotic system to image shelving structures within the store during a scan cycle; receiving images from the robotic system, each image recorded by the robotic system during the scan cycle and corresponding to one waypoint within the store; identifying, in the images, empty slots within the shelving structures; identifying a product assigned to each empty slot based on product location assignments defined in a planogram of the store; for a first product of a first product value and assigned to a first empty slot, generating a first prompt to restock the first empty slot with a unit of the first product during the scan cycle; and, upon completion of the scan cycle, generating a global restocking list specifying restocking of a set of empty slots associated with product values less than the first product value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200184411A1 METHOD FOR TRACKING STOCK LEVEL WITHIN A STORE Public/Granted day:2020-06-11
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