US Patent Issued to WALMART APOLLO on Jan. 13 for "Automatically merging pickup and delivery time slots from nearby stores" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,799, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Automatically merging pickup and delivery time slots from nearby stores" was invented by Austin Lee Smith (San Jose, Calif.), Vineet Wason (San Jose, Calif.), Mihir Vijay Bondale (Pleasanton, Calif.), Vidyanand Krishnan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Navkaran Singh Chadha (San Francisco), Puneet Srivastava (Fremont, Calif.), Yiren Ye (Milpitas, Calif.), Nitish Sarin (Gurgaon, India), Avaneesh Tiwari (Kanpur, India), Zekariyas Kassa Gebru (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rohit Jain (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Surnaik Srivastava (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A...