US Patent Issued to WALMART APOLLO on March 11 for "Systems and methods for determining an order collection start time" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,978, issued on March 11, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for determining an order collection start time" was invented by Austin Lee Smith (San Jose, Calif.), Vidyanand Krishnan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Michael Gilbert Ebener (San Francisco).

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 processors to perform operations comprising: determining, using a predictive analysis, an estimated collection time to coll...