ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,887, issued on March 31, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for assessing trustworthiness of customer accounts in omnichannel retail transactions using machine learning" was invented by Jay Shital Shah (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sarthak Jagetiya (Bhilwara, India), Gnanapriya Venkatasubramaniam (San Carlos, Calif.), Mohammad Javad Mahzoon (Fremont, Calif.) and Ahmad Khodayari-Rostamabad (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for assessing trustworthiness of customer accounts in retail and e-commerce systems using machine learning are disclosed. In some embodiments, a d...