US Patent Issued to WALMART APOLLO on July 8 for "Autonomous robot delivery systems and methods" (Virginia, Missouri, Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,051, issued on July 8, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Autonomous robot delivery systems and methods" was invented by Robert Cantrell (Herndon, Va.), Donald High (Noel, Mo.) and Michael Atchley (Eureka Springs, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic delivery system includes a server, a dispatch module, and a robotic delivery vehicle. The dispatch module transmits a suggested item to the dispatch application being executable on a client device operated by a user; and receives, from the dispatch application, a selection of the suggested item from the user of the client device."

The patent was filed on Oc...