ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,977, issued on June 3, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).
"Method and apparatus for one-tap mobile check-in" was invented by Vidyanand Krishnan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shalina Stillman (Pacifica, Calif.) and Alyssa Thomas (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A purchasing system is provided and generally includes a server (e.g., application server), an associate computing device, and a customer computing device. The server can generate an order check-in request associated with a purchase order. The server can add a link to the order check-in request such that activation of the link directly provides an order ...