ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,155, issued on March 17, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for interface generation using explore and exploit strategies" was invented by Dong Xu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Di Ai (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Xinzi Sun (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of generating an interface are disclosed. A request for an interface including a search query is received and a set of search results are generated via a search engine. A set of initial content campaigns are selected based on a category associated with the search query and are filtered based on a similarity score ge...