ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,973, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Deep learning-based revenue-per-click prediction model framework" was invented by Xuan Cao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Lu Wang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Wei Shen (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including: reducing, using a multilayer perceptron, a dimension of feature embeddings for an item to generate a represen...