ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,005, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Methods and systems for creating reference image templates for identification of products on product storage structures of a product storage facility" was invented by Ashlin Ghosh (Ernakulam, India), Raghava Balusu (Achanta, India), Abhinav Pachauri (Kanpur, India), Avinash M. Jade (Bangalore, India), Lingfeng Zhang (Dallas), Amit Jhunjhunwala (Bangalore, India), William Craig Robinson Jr. (Centerton, Ark.), Benjamin R. Ellison (San Francisco), Srinivas Muktevi (Bengaluru, India) and Zhaoliang Duan (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems an...