ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,124, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Inventory information distribution systems, devices and methods" was invented by Christopher L. Undernehr (Bentonville, Ark.), Tushar Agrawal (Bentonville, Ark.), Sandesh N. Ramnathkar (Bentonville, Ark.), John Turknett (Centerton, Ark.), Mohandas N. Vonga (O'Fallon, Mo.) and Matthew S. Woitaszek (San Bruno, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a product inventory information distribution apparatus, comprising: a central electronic data storage buffer; a control circuit; and a memory storing computer instructions that when execu...