ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,629, issued on May 13, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).
"Systems and methods of defining and identifying product display areas on product display shelves" was invented by Sung H. Kim (Bentonville, Ark.), Asim S. Alvi (Kendall Park, N.J.), Jody P. Cook (New York), Kshitiz Gupta (Jersey City, N.J.), Christopher R. Jescheling (Bentonville, Ark.), Matthew A. Jones (Bentonville, Ark.), Rahul S. Kala (Jersey City, N.J.), Britto J. Michaelsamy (Bentonville, Ark.), Maxwell A. Yardley (Redmond, Wash.), Kumar Chandan (Newark, N.J.), Jadran Sirotkovic (Dublin), Mirko A. Arnold (Dublin), Peter M. Terlecky (Yonkers, N.Y.) and Tirui Wu (Tuam, Ireland).
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