Systems and methods of merging retail products between containers to optimize storing capacity of retail storage facilities
Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number:
12293322
Automated storage and retrieval systems for managing storage of inventory at a retail facility include a storage structure with storage locations configured to store containers that contain retail products, and a conveying system that conveys the containers between the storage locations and a product picking station. A processor-based control circuit analyzes one or more business rules governing product merging between the containers being conveyed toward the picking station by the…
Systems and methods of identifying individual retail products in a product storage area based on an image of the product storage area
Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number:
12288408
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…
Methods and apparatus for predicting a user acquisition event
Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number:
12288235
In some examples, a system may be configured to obtain a set of features of a set of users including one or more features of transactional data of the set of users and one or more features of engagement data of the set of users. Additionally, the system may be configured to implement a first set of operations that generate output data including a plurality of trial membership scores, based on the set of features. In some examples, each trial membership score of the plurality of trial…
Systems and methods for optimizing space utilization of containers at retail storage facilities
Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number:
12288188
Automated storage and retrieval system for managing storage of inventory at a retail facility includes a storage structure with storage locations configured to store containers that contain retail products, and a conveying system that conveys the containers between the storage locations and a product picking station. A computing device analyzes one or more business rules to identify at least two containers that are eligible for the product merging therebetween and causes the conveying…
System and method for forecasting deliveries via blockchain smart contracts
Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number:
12288181
A supply chain forecasting system with blockchain controls is discussed. The supply chain forecasting system can include a central computing system communicating with a third party computing system. The central computing system and third party computing system can initiate, adjust, and fulfill smart contracts associated with the delivery of physical objects using blockchain controls.
System and method for determining item labels based on item images
Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number:
12287824
A method including automatically determining, by a machine learning model trained based at least in part on sample items stored in a sample database, a query embedding vector for a query image of a query item. The method further can include determining, based on a respective embedding distance between the query image of the query item and a respective image of each of the sample items, neighboring items from among the sample items. The respective embedding distance can be calculated…
Conveyor systems and methods for sorting merchandise using interchangeable and assignable sortation modules
Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number:
12286307
There is provided a conveyor assembly for sorting merchandise items. In one form, the conveyor assembly includes: a merchandise identification module; sortation modules each comprising a multi-directional sorting portion with two sets of rollers, a first wing including a third set of rollers, a second wing including a fourth set of rollers, and a controller configured to receive an IP address; a first, disassembled state of the sortation modules; a second, assembled state of the…
Systems and methods for a specialized computer file system
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271342
A computer file system for managing data storage resources is provided. The system comprises storage server configured to receive data file from a client application, modify the file name to include an expiration stamp, upload the at least one data file to the data storage device, generate a file link associated with the at least one data file, and transmit the file link to the client application, wherein the at least one data file is retrievable by the end user via the file link. A…
System and method for management of perpetual inventory values associated with nil picks
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271864
An electronic indication of a nil pick is received. Item information associated with the desired product, sales data concerning the desired product, supply chain information associated with the desired product, and a perpetual inventory (PI) value of the desired product are stored. An adjustment to the PI of the desired product is blocked when a predetermined event occurs at the retail store, or when information that contradicts the validity of the nil pick is received from the retail…
Automatic generation of incremental load design
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271662
A method including obtaining information about a trailer that has been partially loaded with preloaded stacks in a manner that deviates from an original load design. The trailer is loaded with stacks of pallets including (i) the preloaded stacks that have already been loaded in the trailer and (ii) unloaded stacks that have not yet been loaded into the trailer. The method also can include determining positions of empty floor spots remaining in the trailer. The method additionally can…
Systems and methods for user engagement with a retailer
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265997
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful for user engagement with a retailer. In some embodiments, a system includes an application including a set of computer program code configured to be executed by a mobile electronic device associated with a customer of the retailer. The application includes a first component and a second component. A first server includes a first control circuit and communicatively coupled to the application and configured to:…
Long term scheduling of task resources at a plurality of retail stores
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265934
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods provide long term scheduling at a plurality of retail stores including storing a forecasted data over at least eight weekly scheduling periods; determining based on the forecasted data a first baseline hours demand value for each day of a week for each job function of a first set of job functions at a particular retail store; determining based on the forecasted data a second baseline hours demand value for each day of the week for each job…
Methods and apparatus for automatic attribute extraction for training machine learning models
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265891
This application relates to apparatus and methods for training machine learning models using supervised, or semi-supervised, learning. In some examples, a computing device obtains training data that includes labelled, and unlabeled, data for training a machine learning model. The computing device applies the machine learning model to the training data to generate output data. The machine learning model executes with a plurality of coefficients applied to a plurality of hyperparameters.…
Methods and apparatus for recommending substitutions
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12260443
In some examples, a system may be configured to, implement a first set of operations that generate a first set of data characterizing an importance of the most recently added anchor item to the user. Further, the system may be configured to, implement a second set of operations that generate a second set of data characterizing a likelihood of an occurrence of a substitution rejection event associated with the user. That way, based on the first set of data and the second set of data, the…
Relabeling system for unlabeled items and method
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12257604
Systems, methods, and machine readable media are provided for relabeling items. A computing device is communicatively coupled to a scanning device, a printing device, and an inventory system. The computing device identifies at least one of the items as missing an expected label type, the expected label indicating a location where the item should be stocked. The system scans the item via the scanning device, queries the inventory system to determine a location for the item. The system…
Systems and methods for determining an order collection start time
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248978
A system comprising one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising: determining, using a predictive analysis, an estimated collection time to collect one or more items of an order; receiving a mobile check-in from an electronic device indicating that a pickup is en-route to pick-up the order from the store;…
Methods and apparatuses for adding supplemental order deliveries to delivery plans
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248895
A delivery route planning system can include a computing device configured to obtain order delivery data that includes information characterizing delivery locations and delivery time windows associated with a first plurality of orders and to determine a delivery plan based on the order delivery data. The computing device can be further configured to identify recyclable time in the delivery time and to obtain supplemental order delivery data that includes information characterizing…
System and method for removing debris from a storage facility
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248320
Autonomous carriers or totes that include vacuum units are provided. As the totes move or are moved through a warehouse carrying products, they collect debris. The debris can be analyzed at the tote, and actions can be performed based upon the analysis.
Re-using payment instruments for in-store use systems and methods
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12243047
Provided are a re-using e-commerce payment instruments for in-store purchasing systems and methods. A customer enters a check out and a transaction at the point of sale is started. The system receives a pairing request at a wallet processor from a customer mobile device operating a mobile application. This pairing request is created and sent in response to scanning of a code having a transaction identification. The system associates a customer payment profile with the transaction…
Methods and systems for tracking carts and retail products in a shopping space
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12236412
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful for a retail facility to maintain information regarding product location, in part, from correlating a shopper's cart path and their purchased items with those of other shoppers. In some approaches, the methods and apparatuses may determine a cart path for a particular shopping cart by analyzing aisle markers captured by an image capturing device in the shopping cart, associate that cart path with the purchased items…
