US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods of optimizing pack size and customer-facing quantity of retail products at retail facilities" (Arkansas, Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,303, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods of optimizing pack size and customer-facing quantity of retail products at retail facilities" was invented by Jackie L. Guan (Bentonville, Ark.), Juan P. Gomez (Bentonville, Ark.), Jingying Zhang (Beaumont, Texas), Richard B. Ulrich (Bentonville, Ark.) and Seon Ki Kim (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are methods and systems for estimating an optimal product pack size and on-shelf customer facing quantity of the products in view of shelf capacity limitations of the shelves at a given retail store/product distribut...