ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,911, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).
"Apparatus and methods for determining delivery routes and times based on generated machine learning models" was invented by Mingang Fu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Amritayan Nayak (Fremont, Calif.) and Li Ji (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to apparatus and methods for generating and implementing a machine learning model in electronic delivery systems to determine delivery routes and times. In some examples, a computing device generates a machine learning model comprising a plurality of indexed binary trees. Each indexed b...