US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on May 26 for "Systems and methods for retention based item recommendations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,740, issued on May 26, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for retention based item recommendations" was invented by Shreyas Saiprasad Jadhav (San Francisco), Yue Xu (San Francisco), Hyun Duk Cho (San Francisco), Sushant Kumar (San Jose, Calif.) and Kannan Achan (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing item recommendations to increase retention rates of customers are disclosed. In some embodiments, a disclosed method includes: receiving, from a computing device, a recommendation request for recommending items to a customer; determining, based on the rec...