ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,735, issued on May 13, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).
"Systems and methods for remotely purchasing perishable products" was invented by Amit Jhunjhunwala (Bangalore, India), Rahul Kumar (Bangalore, India), Mangesh N. Kulkarni Wadhonkar (Hyderabad, India) and Parul Aggarwal (Samrala, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a system for remotely purchasing perishable products includes a plurality of image capture devices configured to capture images of perishable products, a product image database, a product attribute database, and a control circuit configured to execute computer program modul...