US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on July 22 for "Methods and apparatuses for recommending substitutions made during order fulfillment processes" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,518, issued on July 22, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Methods and apparatuses for recommending substitutions made during order fulfillment processes" was invented by Hyun Duk Cho (San Francisco), Swati Bhatt (Mountain View, Calif.), Vidya Sagar Kalidindi (Milpitas, Calif.), Kamiya Motwani (Madhya Pradesh, India), Sushant Kumar (San Jose, Calif.) and Kannan Achan (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is configured to train a customer understanding model to generate a preference score for substitution items. The customer understanding model generates a preference score for each of a plural...