US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on April 14 for "Seasonality score systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,719, issued on April 14, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Seasonality score systems and methods" was invented by Luyi Ma (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nimesh Sinha (San Jose, Calif.), Parth Ramesh Vajge (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hyun Duk Cho (San Francisco), Sushant Kumar (San Jose, Calif.) and Kannan Achan (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating and using seasonal affinity scores is disclosed. A set of user-specific historical transaction data is obtained and a user-specific affinity score including at least one of a user-specific season affinity score or a user-specific seasona...