ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,908, issued on July 1, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for processing third-party returns" was invented by Maheer Manmohan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Douglas E. Humphrys (Bentonville, Ark.), Sid Shake (Bentonville, Ark.), Charles Harry Lobo (Cave Springs, Ark.), Tripuresh Pandey (Bengaluru, India), Zhijian Huang (San Diego), Nivea Mandavia (Sterling, Va.), Casey S. Hulliberger (Rogers, Ark.) and Darren W. Stanley (Falls Church, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to processing product returns. In some embodiments, a system for...