ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,147, issued on July 8, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC.

"Systems and methods for determining price bands and user price affinity predictions using machine learning architectures and techniques" was invented by Soumya Wadhwa (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ashish Ranjan (San Jose, Calif.), Selene Xu (San Francisco), Hyun Duk Cho (San Francisco), Sushant Kumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Kannan Achan (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising 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 p...