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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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 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…
Systems and methods for product ordering and securely delivering ordered products
Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number:
12282890
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful for ordering and securely delivering products. In some embodiments, a system for ordering and securely delivering products comprises an inventory system associated with a retailer, a system controller, and a storage container. The storage container includes a housing that enclosing a product cavity, a locking door configured to enable access to the product cavity, a user interface coupled to the housing, a wireless…
Refrigeration heat reclaim
Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number:
12281830
Provided are a refrigeration heat reclaim unit and method, comprising a heat exchanger, comprising a refrigerant inlet that receives a flow of refrigerant having a first state; a refrigerant outlet that outputs the flow of refrigerant having a second state; a water loop inlet that receives a flow of liquid at a first temperature; a water loop outlet that outputs the flow of liquid from the reclaim heat exchanger at a second temperature that is greater than the first temperature in…
Display screen with graphical user interface
Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number:
D1071969
Heel counter
Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number:
D1071523
Voice-enabled recipe selection
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277593
A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed configured to run on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to and perform operations: receiving a command from a user; transforming, using a trained machined learning model, the command by detecting an intent to add one or more recipe ingredients; determining a recipe from a set of recipes; determining one or more items…
System, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium, for diversifying complementary item recommendations based on user preferences
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277589
A method including determining, in real-time, a diversity preference score for a user based at least in part on an anchor item chosen by the user via a user interface executed on a user device of the user. The method also can include determining, in real-time, a comparison result between the diversity preference score and a diversity preference threshold. The method further can include generating, in real-time, a personalized recommendation pool based on (a) the comparison result, (b) a…
Systems and methods for rush order fulfilment optimization
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277529
A system for rush order fulfilment optimization is discussed. The system includes mobile devices that are each associated with a worker and a rush fulfillment engine executed by a computing system which dynamically updates a task queue of each worker upon receipt of a new rush order according to a task completion rate difference between an estimated task completion rate and the current task completion rate of the worker.
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 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…
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.…
