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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026
Filed:
May. 18, 2023
Target Brands, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Te Yang, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Gregory Lisso, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Karla Kilian, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Ashfak Jafri, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Tyler Park, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Sean Griffin, Minneapolis, MN (US);
David Ogunewe, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Patrick Mcraith, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Nicole Loehr, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Divya Ds, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Xinbo Wang, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Majid Jahani, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Kayla Bosak, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Target Brands, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
A customer return management system operates to categorize reverse items for resale, such as returned items or overstock inventory, and deliver the categorized items through a variety of different reverse supply chains in a way to increase a net recovery rate. The system uses a sortation system that performs a two-step process for sorting the reverse items into different reverse supply channels. In a first step, the items can be scanned and divided into two categories based on their value, such as high value items and low value items. The low value items can be quickly liquidated as a bulk. In a second step, high value items can be categorized into a number of different sorts, which are taken to different resale channels.