ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,457, issued on July 22, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods of verifying price tag label-product pairings" was invented by Lingfeng Zhang (Dallas), Wei Wang (Dallas), Avinash Madhusudanrao Jade (Bangalore, India), Raghava Balusu (Achanta, India), Mingquan Yuan (Flower Mound, Texas), Jing Wang (Dallas), Han Zhang (Allen, Texas), Zhaoliang Duan (Frisco, Texas), William Craig Robinson Jr. (Centerton, Ark.), Benjamin R. Ellison (San Francisco) and Paul Lewis Lobo (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of verifying pairings of price tag labels and products at a product st...