ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,797, issued on July 15, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Traversing an adjacency list on distributed processors" was invented by Saigopal Thota (Fremont, Calif.), Mridul Jain (Cupertino, Calif.), Albin Kuruvilla (Bangaluru, India), Pruthvi Raj Eranti (Secunderabad, India) and Antriksh Shah (Bangaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed system including multiple processors associated with non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions. The computing instructions, when collectively executed on the multiple processors, cause the multiple processors collectively to perform ce...