ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,918, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for dispute resolution" was invented by Rahul Bajaj (New Delhi), Kailash Sati (Bangalore, India), Luis Felipe Gonzalez Fuentes (San Francisco), Uzma Khan (Toronto), Punith Kumar (Bangalore, India) and Karuna Rawat (Lucknow, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, perform: receiving dispute resolution information from a user corresponding to a dispute, w...