US Patent Issued to WALMART APOLLO on Nov. 25 for "System and method for determining shopping facilities available for order pick up" (Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,031, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"System and method for determining shopping facilities available for order pick up" was invented by Todd D. Mattingly (Bentonville, Ark.) and Bruce W. Wilkinson (Rogers, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to facilitating the vehicle pick up of orders at shopping facilities. In some embodiments, there is provided a system including: an electronic interface for receiving an order corresponding to a customer and for receiving a time period during which the customer requests to pick up t...