ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,314, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"System and method for trailer unload prioritization" was invented by Abhijeet Prakash (Bihar, India), Pavan Boppidi (Centerton, Ark.), Raju Chautagi (Karnataka, India), Najla Jannah Williams (Cypress, Texas), Bhukailas Reddy Bandlapalli (Andhra Pradesh, India), Hariprasad Ramamoorthy (Bentonville, Ark.), Venkata Subramanian Madhu (Bangalore, India) and Susarla Chakravarthy Sitarama (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for prioritizing trailers for unloading freights of the trailers at a distribution center or fulfillment cen...