ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,306, issued on July 14, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"System and method for dynamically determining resource-hold-time recommendations based on estimated causal effects" was invented by Soumojit Guha Majumder (Bangalore, India), Chittaranjan Tripathy (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Subhasish Misra (Bangalore, India), Somedip Karmakar (Bengaluru, India), Swati Kirti (Bellevue, Wash.), Ojaswini Chhabra (San Francisco) and Srikar Gullapalli (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include upon receiving, from a policy update engine, one or more hold-time recommendations, selectively determining, base...