ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,919, issued on March 31, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Edge weight based computer models for item recommendation" was invented by Rajasekhar Jetty (Cumming, Ga.), Neeraj Sharma (Dallas), Ieshan A. Vaidya (Addison, Texas), Yogananda Domlur Seetharama (Missisauga, Canada), Chi-san Ho (Allen, Texas) and Ankit Gupta (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided herein useful to generating item recommendations. In some embodiments, a system for item recommendation may include a memory storing an item recommendation model trained using dense representations f...