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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2017
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Thilmee Baduge, Tokyo, JP;
Ryuuichi Yatsunami, Fukuoka, JP;
Yohei Kushido, Kanagawa, JP;
Die Liu, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01G 19/414 (2006.01); G01G 19/415 (2006.01); G06Q 10/08 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01G 19/4144 (2013.01); G01G 19/415 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01);
Abstract
A stock management method and system utilizes a mat that includes a plurality of sensors corresponding to a plurality of sensing areas, each of sensors is configured to sense an item placed on a certain sensing area. Partitions define a plurality of lanes on the mat. A controller receives sensing results of the plurality of the sensors and calculates a stock level of remained items on the mat based on the sensing results. One of the sensing areas is located in both of two lanes of the plurality of lanes.