ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,673, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Training and using an inventory anomaly prediction model to predict inventory anomalies" was invented by Jinyang Zhou (McKinney, Texas), Karun Dhingra (Rogers, Ark.) and Raisa Mukadam (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized method trains an inventory anomaly prediction model and uses the model to predict and address inventory anomalies. Daily inventory data associated with an inventory storage location is obtained from an inventory data store and provided to a pretrained anomaly prediction model as input. The anomaly prediction...