US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on Feb. 3 for "Methods and apparatus for load and route assignments in a delivery system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. RE50,779, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Methods and apparatus for load and route assignments in a delivery system" was invented by Mingang Fu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Pushkar Raj Pande (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Amritayan Nayak (Santa Clara, Calif.), Deepak Deshpande (San Jose, Calif.), Madhavan Kandhadai Vasantham (Dublin, Calif.), Syed Aman (Santa Clara, Calif.), Deyi Zhang (Fremont, Calif.) and Rohit Jain (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load and route assignment system is provided and generally includes a computing device and a database. The database may store historical inbound load ...