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Wal-Mart Stores Assigned Patent(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- Wal-Mart Stores, Bentonville, Arkansas, has been assigned a patent (8,781,908) developed by four co-inventors for a method and apparatus "for automated shopper checkout using radio frequency identification technology." The co-inventors are Justin C. Lewis, Bentonville, Arkansas, Richard B. Ulrich, Bentonville, Arkansas, Nicholaus A. Jones, Bentonville, Arkansas, and Matthew M. Lowrie, Bentonville, Arkansas. The patent application was filed on Nov. 7, 2008 (12/267,068). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8781908.PN.&OS=PN/8781908&RS=PN/8781908 Written by Merly Lapig; edited by Marlyn Vitin. 22LapigM 140723-1038902 (c) 2014 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ] |