ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,149, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for analyzing and labeling images in a retail facility" was invented by Raghava Balusu (Achanta, India), Siddhartha Chakraborty (Kolkata, India), Ashlin Ghosh (Ernakulam, India), Avinash M. Jade (Bangalore, India), Lingfeng Zhang (Dallas) 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 processing captured images. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for processing captured images of objects including a memory and a control cir...