US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on Feb. 10 for "System and method for estimating in-store demand based on online demand" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,039, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"System and method for estimating in-store demand based on online demand" was invented by Anshul Lakhani (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Taizhou Li (San Jose, Calif.), Santhosh Kumar Shanmugam (San Jose, Calif.) and John Penfield Bowman (El Cerrito, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for estimating in-store demand based on online data are disclosed. In some embodiments, a machine learning model is trained based on data of shared items that are being sold both online and in-store by a retailer. For a physical store of the retailer, inference it...