US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on Aug. 4 for "Systems and methods of wheel based power generation for electronic components on retail carts" (California, Michigan, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,021, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods of wheel based power generation for electronic components on retail carts" was invented by Jon Alferness (San Francisco), Andrew J. Grignon (Roseville, Calif.), Darrell Whitelaw (Pacific Palisades, Calif.), Matthew S. Brown (Kinnelon, N.J.), William J. Yergin (San Jose, Calif.), Ankoor-Anish K. Hazari (Castro Valley, Calif.) and Brittany N. Leek (Waterford, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to wheel-based power generation on a cart for transporting commercial pro...