ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,878, issued on July 29, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for generating basket and item quantity predictions using machine learning architectures" was invented by Sonal Bathe (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Aleksandra Cerekovic (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rahul Sridhar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sinduja Subramaniam (San Jose, Calif.), Evren Korpeoglu (San Jose, Calif.) and Kannan Achan (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors an...