ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,498, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).
"Methods and systems for determining household characteristics" was invented by Sneha Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rishi Rajasekaran (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nimesh Sinha (San Jose, Calif.), Yue Xu (San Francisco), Yokila Arora (San Jose, Calif.), Hyun Duk Cho (San Francisco), Sushant Kumar (San Jose, Calif.) and Kannan Achan (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for recommending products based on characteristics of a customer's household. The system and method associates age dependent products with developmental stages on a uni...