ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,735, issued on June 16, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Object tracking and cluster voting for tag detections and exceptions" was invented by Han Zhang (Allen, Texas), Avinash Madhusudanrao Jade (Bangalore, India), Lingfeng Zhang (Flower Mound, Texas), Zhaoliang Duan (Frisco, Texas), Mingquan Yuan (Flower Mound, Texas), Eric W. Rader (Plano, Texas), Zhiwei Huang (Flower Mound, Texas), Benjamin Ellison (San Francisco), William Craig Robinson (Centerton, Ark.), Siddhartha Chakraborty (Kudghat, India), Raghava Balusu (Achanta, India), Aadarsh Gupta (Muvattupuzha, India), Jing Wang (Dallas), Rongdong Chai (Allen, Texas), Ashlin Ghosh (Muvattupuzha, India) and ...