ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,776, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"System and method for dynamically and automatically updating item prices on e-commerce platform" was invented by Huidong Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Akshit Sarpal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Elliot Grenn Silva (New York), Fangjing Fu (Bentonville, Ark.), Fangping Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yang Song (San Bruno, Calif.), Weihang Ren (Foster City, Calif.) and Lijie Wan (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for dynamically and automatically updating item prices on e-commerce platform are disclosed. In some embodiments, an item ...