ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,967, issued on May 13, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for electronic notification queues" was invented by Sandeep Malik (Fremont, Calif.) and Chintan Pankajkumar Shah (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include 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: receiving a new notification; determining, using a binary search algorithm, a number of one or more notifications, wherein an interval of the b...