ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,255, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for identifying different product identifiers that correspond to the same product" was invented by Ashlin Ghosh (Ernakulam, India), Feiyun Zhu (Allen, Texas), Avinash M. Jade (Bangalore, India), Lingfeng Zhang (Dallas), Amit Jhunjhunwala (Bangalore, India), Raghava Balusu (Achanta, 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: "In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein ...