US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on April 29 for "Systems and methods for optimizing space utilization of containers at retail storage facilities" (New York, Georgia, New Jersey, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,188, issued on April 29, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for optimizing space utilization of containers at retail storage facilities" was invented by Vivek Tomar (Cincinnati), Rei E. Siew Hew Sam (New York), Sunada SN Chakravarthy (Metuchen, N.J.) and Kaiwen Luo (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated storage and retrieval system for managing storage of inventory at a retail facility includes a storage structure with storage locations configured to store containers that contain retail products, and a conveying system that conveys the containers between the storage locations and a ...