ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,563, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Lineage Logistics LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Optimizing pallet location in a warehouse" was invented by Daniel Thomas Wintz (San Francisco), Michael Lingzhi Li (Cambridge, Mass.), Elliott Gerard Wolf (Oakland, Calif.), Chloe Mawer (San Francisco), Caitlin Voegele (San Francisco), Zhou Daisy Fang (Durham, N.C.), Maya Ileana Choudhury (Winter Park, Fla.), Julia Long (Durham, N.C.), Sudarsan Thattai (Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.) and Jeffrey Alvarez Rivera (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-based technology is provided to optimize a warehouse space, such as warehouse racks. T...