US Patent Issued to WALMART APOLLO on April 29 for "Conveyor systems and methods for sorting merchandise using interchangeable and assignable sortation modules" (Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,307, issued on April 29, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Conveyor systems and methods for sorting merchandise using interchangeable and assignable sortation modules" was invented by Jason D. Bellar (Bella Vista, Ark.) and William Mark Propes (Bentonville, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a conveyor assembly for sorting merchandise items. In one form, the conveyor assembly includes: a merchandise identification module; sortation modules each comprising a multi-directional sorting portion with two sets of rollers, a first wing including a third set of rollers, a second wing including a fourt...