US Patent Issued to WALMART APOLLO on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods for supply chain management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,557, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for supply chain management" was invented by Karthick Gopalswamy (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jayadeep Anil Shitole (San Jose, Calif.) and Ajinkya Ajay More (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A systems 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, perform: receiving inventory information from two or more merchants; clustering the two or more merchants into a group of merchants; operating an optimization ...