US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on March 25 for "Methods and apparatus for recommending substitutions" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,443, issued on March 25, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Methods and apparatus for recommending substitutions" was invented by Apoorv Reddy Arrabothu (Telangana, India), Sree Vasthav Shatdarshanam Venkata (Bangalore, India), Kamiya Motwani (Madhya Pradesh, India), Kannan Achan (Saratoga, Calif.), Atul Kochhar (San Jose, Calif.), Basant Choudhary (Kolkata, India), Vidya Sagar Kalidindi (Milpitas, Calif.) and Rahul Ramkumar (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a system may be configured to, implement a first set of operations that generate a first set of data characterizing an ...