US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on May 26 for "Next state prediction using likelihood estimates" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,726, issued on May 26, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Next state prediction using likelihood estimates" was invented by Raj Deep Arora (Secaucus, N.J.), Srujana Kaddevarmuth (San Jose, Calif.), Mounica Urity (Mountain View, Calif.) and Topojoy Biswas (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations related to next state prediction and action selection are disclosed. In an example, an initial state is estimated based on a set of priors including at least one engagement opportunity. A diminishing effect of the at least one engagement opportunity is determined using a non-linear transfo...