US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on June 30 for "Historical generation time of data items" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,074, issued on June 30, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Historical generation time of data items" was invented by Menkae Jeng (San Jose, Calif.), Sharat Narayan Hegde (San Jose, Calif.), Kushagra Dar (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ruchir Choudhry (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples relate to data update requests for data items stored at a data store in a data system. In some examples, real-time data update requests to update data items at the data store via a plurality of data update nodes are received, where each data update node has a respective local map. In response to the real-time data u...