ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,391, issued on July 8, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Methods and apparatus for text identification and extraction within images using machine learning processes" was invented by Ramanujam Ramaswamy Srinivasa (Bengaluru, India) and Pranav Aggarwal (Navi Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to systems and methods for identifying anomalous interactions. Interaction data representative of an interaction is received and the interaction is classified as one of an anomalous interaction or a benign interaction using an anomaly detection model. The anomaly detection model is configure...