US Patent Issued to WALMART APOLLO on April 8 for "Automatic generation of incremental load design" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,662, issued on April 8, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Automatic generation of incremental load design" was invented by Minghui Liu (San Bruno, 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 method including obtaining information about a trailer that has been partially loaded with preloaded stacks in a manner that deviates from an original load design. The trailer is loaded with stacks of pallets including (i) the preloaded stacks that have already been loaded in the trailer and (ii) unloaded stacks that have not yet been loaded into the trailer. The...