ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,222, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).
"System and method for determination of overstated PI values" was invented by Ying C. Yau (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Zheyuan Chen (Carlsbad, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An out-of-stock indicator is received that indicates a product is out-of-stock or believed to be out-of-stock. Information about the features of the products and store are obtained or determined. The features are applied to a first machine learning model, which yields a probability that the item is out-of-stock. The obtained probability is compared to a threshold, and if the probabilit...