Methods and systems for tracking carts and retail products in a shopping space

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United States of America

PATENT NO 12236412
APP PUB NO 20230122649A1
SERIAL NO

18081467

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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 from that shopping cart, and compare the associated cart path and purchased items with similar information from other customers. In some examples, by comparing the associated cart paths and purchased items form a plurality of customers, an aisle location of one of the retail items is identified and the database of aisle locations and retail items may be updated accordingly.

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  • WALMART APOLLO, LLC

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Jones, Matthew A Bentonville, US 166 1483
Jones, Nicholaus A Fayetteville, US 163 1010
Taylor, Robert J Rogers, US 142 1457
Vasgaard, Aaron J Rogers, US 47 239

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