ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,765, issued on July 29, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"System and method for providing uniform tracking information with a reliable estimated time of arrival" was invented by Austin Lee Smith (Burlingame, Calif.), Ridhima Kaur Arora (South San Francisco, Calif.), Sandip Mahanta (Bengaluru, India) and Vidyanand Krishnan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including receiving driver tracking information from a platform of a delivery driver network of multiple delivery driver networks. The method further can include determining a platform-dependent format of the driver tracking informatio...