US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on Sept. 23 for "Scale having a machine-readable code display" (Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,669, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Scale having a machine-readable code display" was invented by Lindsay A. Fishburn (Bentonville, Ark.), Stephen Caution (Bentonville, Ark.) and Thomas P. Smith (Bentonville, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, systems, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to provide a weight of a product in a machine-readable code on a scale. More specifically, the scale can include an associated display that is configured to display a machine-readable code when a product is weighed on the scale, where the machine-readable code informs...