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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018
Filed:
May. 04, 2017
Wal-mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR (US);
Nicholaus A. Jones, Fayetteville, AR (US);
Robert J. Taylor, Rogers, AR (US);
Aaron J. Vasgaard, Rogers, AR (US);
Matthew A. Jones, Bentonville, AR (US);
Todd D. Mattingly, Bentonville, AR (US);
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful for monitoring a facility, such as the safety, security, and status of individuals and items within the facility. In one illustrative approach, a retail facility maintains 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, a cart path may be determined, in part, by depositing compounds on a floor surface, provide shopping carts configured to pick up the compounds deposited on the floor of the retail facility, and capture, via a compound detector, the compounds deposited on the cart wheels of a particular shopping cart during a customer checkout at a point of sale terminal, and generate an estimated cart path for the particular one of the plurality of shopping carts.