ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,168, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for automatically invoking a delivery request for an in- progress order" was invented by Austin Lee Smith (Burlingame, Calif.), Deepak Deshpande (San Jose, Calif.), Vidyanand Krishnan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Michael Gilbert Ebener (San Francisco), Arnon Katz (San Mateo, Calif.) and Prakash Seetharaman (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or mo...