ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,713, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to INTELLIGRATED HEADQUARTERS LLC (Mason, Ohio).

"Methods and apparatuses for automatically palletizing and depallitizing items" was invented by David Frederick Pepley (Pittsburgh) and Mayank Pathak (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, apparatuses, and computer program products for automatically determining a placement location or removal location for one or more items is disclosed. An example method comprising generating a plurality of three-dimensional pallet cells for a pallet; generating one or more three-dimensional item cells for each item of a plurality of items; determining a...