ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,337, issued on June 3, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Integrated gateway platform for fulfillment services" was invented by Shiva Krishna Potu (Milpitas, Calif.), Venkateswararao Chennamsetty (Dublin, Calif.), Dhruv Rajnikant Sojitra (Sunnyvale, 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 operations including: authenticating at least one source of...