ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,291, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Similar item recommendation framework using wide-and-deep-architecture" was invented by Behzad Shahrasbi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sriram Guna Sekhar Kollipara (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jianpeng Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Evren Korpeoglu (San Jose, Calif.) and Kannan Achan (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system 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, cause the one or more processors to perform functions comprising: rece...