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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2012
Brett Bracewell Bonner, New Richmond, OH (US);
Robert Edward Carmack, Cold Spring, KY (US);
Titus Arthur Jones, Hebron, KY (US);
Doug Steven Meiser, Wilder, KY (US);
Christopher Dale Norris, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Nathaniel Wellikoff, Collierville, TN (US);
Michael John Zettler, Alexandria, KY (US);
Brett Bracewell Bonner, New Richmond, OH (US);
Robert Edward Carmack, Cold Spring, KY (US);
Titus Arthur Jones, Hebron, KY (US);
Doug Steven Meiser, Wilder, KY (US);
Christopher Dale Norris, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Nathaniel Wellikoff, Collierville, TN (US);
Michael John Zettler, Alexandria, KY (US);
Sunrise R&D Holdings, LLC, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A method of reclaiming products from a retail store includes passing a plurality of products through an object identification system, capturing images of the plurality of products with object sensors as the products pass through the object identification system, processing the images to identify an indicium for each product, transmitting the indicium for each product through a wireless communication network to a logic engine, sorting the plurality of products based on the indicia to produce a bundled lot of products, producing a unique identifier for the bundled lot, the unique identifier having a machine readable code, and communicating the unique identifier of the bundled lot and the indicia of the products in the bundled lot to an auctioneer for initiation of a direct-to-consumer auction for auctioning of the bundled lot directly to a group of bidders.