ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,750, issued on July 29, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Method and apparatus for managing a task and project messaging system" was invented by Mahalakshmi Balasubramanian (Bengaluru, India) and Siddhant Medewar (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing a project manager with a configurable platform from which to oversee the status of a project are discussed. A project management application provides a project manager with a granular oversight of individual tasks and a view of task dependencies in a sequence of tasks during a project's execution. A dashboard graphical u...