ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,050, issued on April 7, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for determining a dynamic bid for a ranking system" was invented by Biyi Fang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Anish Saha (Mountain View, Calif.), Xinzi Sun (Redwood City, Calif.), Dong Xu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kritika Upreti (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mohit Prakash Patel (San Jose, Calif.), Jayanth Korlimarla (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jiaxuan Xu (Jersey City, N.J.), Musen Wen (Mountain View, Calif.), Ramakanth Putta (Milpitas, Calif.), Naga Vijay Bhaskar Manchi (Campbell, Calif.), Valeriy Valeryevich Pelyushenko (San Jose, Calif.), Ranjit Kumar Pedapati (Saratoga, Calif.), Rajesh Garigipati (Dublin, Cali...