ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,795, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Single-select predictive platform model" was invented by Rahul Sridhar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sinduja Subramaniam (San Jose, Calif.), Tejal Kumar Patted (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Evren Korpeoglu (San Jose, Calif.), Kannan Achan (Saratoga, Calif.), Rahul Ramkumar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mark Richards Ibbotson (Bentonville, Ark.), Thomas Russel Ward (Farmington, Ark.), Ryan Wayne Travis (Fayetteville, Ark.), Vidyanand Krishnan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Lucinda Frink Newcomb (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including one or more processors an...