ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,477, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for pregenerating states for items" was invented by Vinay Muniganti (San Jose, Calif.), Sandeep Singh (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ravi Rastogi (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to providing item information to customers. In some embodiments, a system for providing item information to customers in an online retail environment comprises a data store configured to store states of items, a user device, and a control circuit configured to receive, from ba...