US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on April 29 for "System and method for forecasting deliveries via blockchain smart contracts" (Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,181, issued on April 29, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"System and method for forecasting deliveries via blockchain smart contracts" was invented by Tarun Dasari (Bentonville, Ark.), Aditya Reddy Cheruku (Bentonville, Ark.), Anand Banik (Rogers, Ark.), Sumanth B. Talasila (Bentonville, Ark.), Kishore P. Sasthiri (Bentonville, Ark.) and Murthy N. Kolluru (Bentonville, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supply chain forecasting system with blockchain controls is discussed. The supply chain forecasting system can include a central computing system communicating with a third party computing system. The central...