ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,894, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and method to facilitate modeling responses to variable values" was invented by Pingjian Yu (Plano, Texas), Jianbo Gu (Bentonville, Ark.), Wenyue Shi (Bentonville, Ark.), Siddharth Hareendran (Bentonville, Ark.), Yunus Kamal (Bentonville, Ark.), Pawan R. Natarajan (Fayetteville, Ark.), Philippe E. Bled (Broken Arrow, Okla.) and Chinar Potnis (Bentonville, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides techniques for facilitating modeling responses to variable parameters, and in particular embodiments, within the context of a price set...