ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,731, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Mapping systems and methods for shopping guidance" was invented by Susan Elizabeth Wright (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guidance system for efficiently providing a mapped path for a shopper in a store. The guidance system including one or more processors and one or more tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media storing instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the guidance system to analyze data indicative of a plurality of purchase items, map each purchase item...