System and method for management of perpetual inventory values associated with nil picks
Granted: November 14, 2023
Patent Number:
11816628
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…
System and method for forecasting deliveries via blockchain smart contracts using hyperspectral computer vision
Granted: November 14, 2023
Patent Number:
11816625
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.
Probabilistic fresh in-store production management
Granted: November 14, 2023
Patent Number:
11816614
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for in-store production management. A method comprises training a probabilistic demand model using the training dataset based on a machine learning algorithm, determining a probabilistic forecast of a demand for a perishable product at a store location on a date based on the probabilistic demand model, applying an objective function to each of the plurality of demand values in the probabilistic forecast to determine an objective value…
Systems and methods for executing attention-based object searches on images using neural network architectures
Granted: November 14, 2023
Patent Number:
11815942
A systems including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform acts of: receiving a query image comprising at least one target object and at least one candidate image; generating a plurality of proposals based on the at least one candidate image; selecting a portion of the plurality of proposals to produce a reduced proposal set; generating a query embedding corresponding…
Conveyor and logic systems to return, balance, and buffer processed or empty totes
Granted: November 14, 2023
Patent Number:
11814249
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to automatically balance and buffer the return of empty containers or other totes to a plurality of areas. In some embodiments, a control circuit employs a logic system in which empty totes are directed along primary, secondary, or tertiary paths depending on information gathered from sensors regarding the availability of space for empty totes at a plurality of potential destinations. In this way, the return of empty…
Stocking cart and method of transporting items using the same
Granted: November 14, 2023
Patent Number:
11814095
The embodiments described herein are directed to a cart and related methods. The cart includes a base, a plurality of wheels connected to the base, a lower platform mounted to the base, a back panel mounted to the base, a set of lateral panels, an opening side of the cart, and a linking mechanism. The set of lateral panels defines an interior space of the cart. At least one of the set of lateral panels includes a shelf. The shelf is pivotally mounted to a rectangular frame of the at…
System for storing unmanned aerial vehicles
Granted: November 14, 2023
Patent Number:
11813950
A system for storing one or more unmanned aerial vehicles is described herein. The system includes one or more shelves attached to a holding structure, the one or more shelves being configured to support one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the one or more shelves defining one or more shelf areas configured to receive the one or more unmanned aerial vehicles. The system also includes an electrical charging station configured to charge electrical batteries of the one or more…
Systems and methods for determining and executing trusted user access
Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11810414
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for user access to smart locks at a retail shopping facility. In one embodiment, a system for user access to smart locks at a retail shopping facility includes an access member, a smart lock securing the access member, and a control circuit. The control circuit configured to receive authentication data from the user interface device; determine whether the authentication data matches within a threshold of stored authentication data…
Systems and methods of authenticating items
Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11811941
In some embodiments, systems and methods provide distributed item authentication. In some embodiments systems comprise: a housing; a set of sensor systems; a transceiver; and an authentication control circuit configured to: obtain first sensor data of an item being authenticated, obtain an initial identification of the item; access an item authentication block specific to the item; obtain a first set of authentication instructions; control one or more sensor systems in accordance with…
Systems and methods for webpage personalization
Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11811881
A system can include one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform receiving, from an electronic device, a search query from a user of a plurality of users; processing first data; and facilitating displaying a set of items. Processing the first data can comprise determining one or more keywords by capturing the one or more keywords during a time…
Systems and methods for optimizing delivery routes using fleet vehicles and third-party deliverers
Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11810059
Systems and methods including 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 functions comprising: determining at least one fleet delivery route for delivery of one or more items of one or more orders to one or more locations using a vehicle fleet; dynamically shuffling the at least one fleet delivery route by at least evaluating a…
Shipment verification
Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11810055
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to verify accuracy of a shipment. In some embodiments, items loaded to and/or unloaded from a delivery vehicle are scanned and compared to a delivery schedule, and a unique identifier is provided to confirm proper loading/unloading at a subsequent scheduled stop of the vehicle.
Forecasting system
Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11810015
Described in detail herein is a forecasting system. In one embodiment, the system can generate forecast data for the amount of labor and physical objects needed at various facilities.
Mismatch detection model
Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11809979
A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform obtaining a set of items that have been grouped together as matching items in a group; performing an ensemble mismatch detection; performing multiple detection models on the set of items to generate respective outputs regarding mismatches; combining the respective outputs to determine whether a quantity…
Automated container cutting system and method
Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11806825
An automated container cutting system for cutting a container includes a cutting platform and a cutting tool held by the cutting platform. The cutting tool is configured to cut the container. The automated container cutting system includes a force feedback sensor operatively connected to the cutting tool such that the force feedback sensor is configured to measure resistive force exerted on the cutting tool. The automated container cutting system includes at least one processor…
Methods and apparatuses for discriminative pre-training for low resource title compression
Granted: October 31, 2023
Patent Number:
11804214
A system for generating compressed product titles that can be used in conversational transactions includes a computing device configured to obtain product title data characterizing descriptive product titles of products available on an ecommerce marketplace and to determine compressed product titles based on the product title data using a machine learning model that is pre-trained using a replaced-token detection task. The computing device also stores the compressed product titles for…
Systems and methods of product identification within an image
Granted: October 31, 2023
Patent Number:
11803892
Some embodiments provide systems to identify products comprising: product vector database; a plurality of portable computing devices comprising a camera and a control circuit configured to: access an image captured by the camera; perform an optical character recognition on the image; apply a vector modeling rule to key text, generate a first query product vector and wirelessly communicate the first query product vector to the product recommendation system; the product recommendation…
Systems and methods for determining price bands and user price affinity predictions using machine learning architectures and techniques
Granted: October 31, 2023
Patent Number:
11803889
Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform acts of: providing a machine learning architecture that is configured to evaluate expensiveness of items relative to each other, wherein the items are included in an item type category; receiving prices associated with the items included in the item type category; generating, using a price band…
System and method for adjusting the opening of containers to avoid damage to contents
Granted: October 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11794370
First scanned images of the first container are received from a scanning device that show the contents of the interior of the first container before the first container is cut and opened. Second scanned images that are of the contents of the first container after the first container is cut and opened are also received. The images are analyzed and, based upon the analysis, selective modifications to the operating parameters of the container opening machine are determined and made.
System and method for perpetual inventory management
Granted: October 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11797929
A perpetual inventory (PI) value associated with the selected product and a last PI adjustment time that indicates when the retail store last adjusted the PI value are received. The PI value of the selected product is compared to the back room quantity value of the selected product, and a time when the back room quantity value becomes greater than the PI value for the selected product is determined. An adjustment to the PI of the selected product is blocked when the PI adjustment time is…
