ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,597, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLc (Bentonville, Ark.).

"System and method for autonomous decision making, corrective action, and navigation in a dynamically changing world" was invented by John J. O'Brien (Farmington, Ark.), Donald R. High (Noel, Mo.), Brian Mchale (Oldham, Great Britain) and David Winkle (Bentonville, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle system includes a body and a plurality of sensors coupled to the body and configured to generate a plurality of sensor measurements corresponding to the plurality of sensors. The system also includes a control unit configured to: receive i...