US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on July 22 for "Systems and methods of implementing a distributed retail point-of-sale hardware management network" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,470, issued on July 22, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods of implementing a distributed retail point-of-sale hardware management network" was invented by Vaibhav Rastogi (Ashburn, Va.), Chirag D. Parikh (Ashburn, Va.), Venkata Ravi Kumar Yeluru (Herndon, Va.), Christian A. Griggs (Fairfax, Va.), Jessie Yan (Gaithersburg, Md.), Jerrad A. Patch (Fairfax, Va.) and Scott W. Plunkett (Brambleton, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to establish retail point-of-sale (POS) hardware management systems, comprising: an intermediary...