ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,102, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Beijing Jingdong Zhenshi Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for controlling item inventory, and device and medium" was invented by Bingjie Zhong (Beijing), Zhenyu Gao (Beijing), Xiaotian Zhuang (Beijing) and Shengnan Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling item inventory includes: for each to-be-processed item, determining a replenishment attribute value of a current to-be-processed item based on a current time and shipment quantity-associated information of the current to-be-processed item; in response to detecting that a target to-be-p...