ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,055, issued on July 8, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC.
"Automatic determination of pickup wait times" was invented by Shengyang Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mingang Fu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Madhavan Kandhadai Vasantham (Dublin, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform certain operations. The operations can include determining an estimated arrival time of a user at a physical store. The operations also can include...