ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,659, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for assessing items for sale" was invented by Prithvi Kambhampati (The Colony, Texas) and Paarvendhan Puviyarasu (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to assessing items for sale. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for assessing items for sale at a retail facility including an imaging device, a database, and a control circuit. The control circuit configured to: receive a captured image of at least one of items for sale; receive, for each item in the ...