ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,101, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).
"Load selection for a multi-modal transportation network with facility capacity constraints" was invented by Ming Ni (Pflugerville, Texas), Liqing Zhang (Humble, Texas), Kunlei Lian (Windermere, Fla.), Nadere Mansouri (McKinney, Texas), Etika Agarwal (Bangalore, India), Rohan Prakash (Rogers, Ark.), Li Ji (Fremont, Calif.), Ti Zhang (Rocklin, Calif.), Jing Huang (San Jose, Calif.) and Mingang Fu (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that,...