ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,608, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Clustering of items with heterogeneous data points" was invented by Raghava Balusu (Achanta, India), Avinash M. Jade (Bangalore, India), Lingfeng Zhang (Dallas), Srinivas Muktevi (Bengaluru, India) and Amit Jhunjhunwala (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to updating inventory of products. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for updating inventory of products including a database; at least one image capture device; and a control circuit. The control circuit...