ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,222, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).
"Methods and apparatus for data and data request management" was invented by Sivakumar Subramanian (Karnataka, India), Deekkan Kannan (Tamil Nadu, India), Hari Sai Gangadhar V (Bangalore, India) and Joyan Sil (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to automatic processes that service data requests for information related to an item during varying temporal periods. For example, a computing device receives first attributes for an item, and generates a first surrogate key and a first super surrogate key based on the first at...