ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,564, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Automated inspection system" was invented by Brandon Johnsen (Rogers, Ark.), Terry Osbon (Fayetteville, Ark.), Riley Turben (Bentonville, Ark.), Joshua Bohling (Centerton, Ark.) and Craig Trudo (Centerton, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the disclosure provide for an automated inspection system. The system includes an inspection component implemented on at least one computing device with at least one sensor configured to capture data about a good; and a communication component communicatively coupled to the computing device and configured...