ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,564, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).
"Container pack size optimization" was invented by Pallav S. Dubey (Bangalore, India), Mohit Mehrotra (Jabalpur, India), Deepa Radhakrishnan (Bangalore, India), Harshitha Sampangi (Bangalore, India), Kyle R. Carlyle (Cave Springs, Ark.), Anuradha Chithirala (Bentonville, Ark.) and Adriano De Brito Caraco (Bentonville, Ark.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit obtains a first set of rules that define a conveyability range for containers as a function of conveyability constraints pertaining to an intermediary distribution facility. The control c...