ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,007, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Digital tag integration system using modular data" was invented by Jeremy L. Velten (Bella Vista, Ark.), Gina Smith (Fayetteville, Ark.) and Binoy Yonzon (New Providence, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples a digital tag integration system using modular data to populate digital tags with item data. In some examples, a tag manager obtains a tag unique identifier (UID) for each digital tag associated with a modular display in accordance with a customized scan sequence. Each digital tag is temporarily matched to an item UID having the same position...