ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,998, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"System and method for electronic planogram generation" was invented by Somedip Karmakar (Bengalore, India) and Ashish Gupta (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating an electronic planogram optimized for space elasticity calculating a space elasticity include training a constrained linear regression model using a first training dataset, training a multiple non-linear regression model based on a second training dataset including, training a non-linear multiple-constraint mixed integer optimization model based at lea...