ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,263, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods of monitoring location labels of product storage structures of a product storage facility" was invented by Chongrui Zhao (San Mateo, Calif.), Shanthi Narayanan (Parrish, Fla.) and Tracy E. Benson (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of monitoring location labels on product storage structures of a product storage facility include an image capture device that captures images of the product storage structures and a computing device programmed to analyze the images of the product storage structures captured b...