ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,398, issued on July 21, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).
"Systems and methods for customized navigation" was invented by Huozhou Xu (Rogers, Ark.), William R. Rose (Noel, Mo.), Jie Zhu (Fayetteville, Ark.), Bowen Gong (Centerton, Ark.), Yanbin Ye (Bentonville, Ark.) and Jiankun Liu (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to providing customized in-store navigation. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for providing customized in-store navigation including shelving units; shelf electronic shelf labels; product electronic shelf labe...