The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2024
Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);
Han Zhang, Allen, TX (US);
Avinash Madhusudanrao Jade, Bangalore, IN;
Lingfeng Zhang, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Zhaoliang Duan, Frisco, TX (US);
Mingquan Yuan, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Eric W. Rader, Plano, TX (US);
Zhiwei Huang, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Benjamin Ellison, San Francisco, CA (US);
William Craig Robinson, Centerton, AR (US);
Siddhartha Chakraborty, Kudghat, IN;
Raghava Balusu, Achanta, IN;
Aadarsh Gupta, Muvattupuzha, IN;
Jing Wang, Dallas, TX (US);
Rongdong Chai, Allen, TX (US);
Ashlin Ghosh, Muvattupuzha, IN;
Oleksandr Viatchaninov, Indian Trail, NC (US);
Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
Examples enable pallet tag tracking and cluster voting for more accurate pallet tag management using images of a selected pallet. A tag manager tracks a pallet through multiple images of the pallet to ensure the same pallet appears in every image. If the pallet tag is absent from all the images, a tag missing confidence score is generated that indicates the degree of confidence that the tag is missing from the pallet and not merely out of view. The score is used to prioritize handling of pallet tag missing exceptions. If the pallet tag is present in the images, optical character recognition (OCR) results for each tag image are aggregated into a tag cluster with a confidence score calculated for each result. A pallet tag identification (ID) number is predicted based on the result having the highest confidence score to ensure the pallet tag ID is complete and accurate.