ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,477, issued on July 15, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).
"Third party carrier management" was invented by Pratosh Deepak Rajkhowa (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shanmuga Sundaram (Madurai, India), Nitin Agrawal (Karnataka, India), Vikram Bhogayta (Karnataka, India), Rohit Jain (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Deepak Deshpande (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates generally to third party carrier management by a shipper of items. These items may be ordered and shipped by the shipper to a distribution center with final delivery performed by the third party carrier. In an embodiment, a system incl...