ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,375, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Generating recommendations using adversarial counterfactual learning and evaluation" was invented by Da Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Chuanwei Ruan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sushant Kumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Evren Korpeoglu (San Jose, Calif.) and Kannan Achan (Saratoga, 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 computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, perform certain acts. The acts can include obtaining training data. The acts also...