US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on Sept. 30 for "Systems, methods, and apparatus for updating an electronic shelf label display" (Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,093, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems, methods, and apparatus for updating an electronic shelf label display" was invented by Michelle Collett (Bella Vista, Ark.), Michael McGuire (Centerton, Ark.) and Yiqiang Su (Rogers, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic shelf label (ESL) system is discussed. An ESL affixed to a shelf facing assists stock associates in managing products on the shelf. More particularly, the ESL may receive and display step-by-step instructions and/or graphical depictions on a display screen of the ESL that are received from a computing device-execut...