ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,902, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for detecting support members of product storage structures at product storage facilities" was invented by Wei Wang (Dallas), Lingfeng Zhang (Dallas), Han Zhang (Allen, Texas), Avinash M. Jade (Bangalore, India), Mingquan Yuan (Flower Mound, Texas), Zhaoliang Duan (Frisco, Texas), Siddhartha Chakraborty (Kolkata, India), Benjamin R. Ellison (San Francisco), William Craig Robinson Jr. (Centerton, Ark.) and Eric W. Rader (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of detecting support members of product storage stru...