ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,558, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods of selecting an image from a group of images of a retail product storage area" was invented by Lingfeng Zhang (Dallas), Mingquan Yuan (Flower Mound, Texas), Paul Lewis Lobo (Irving, Texas), Avinash M. Jade (Bangalore, India), Zhichun Xiao (Plano, Texas), William Craig Robinson Jr. (Centerton, Ark.), Zhaoliang Duan (Frisco, Texas), Wei Wang (Dallas), Han Zhang (Allen, Texas), Raghava Balusu (Achanta, India) and Tianyi Mao (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of monitoring inventory of a product storage facility i...