US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on Jan. 13 for "Methods and apparatus for automatic item placement" (Arkansas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,452, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Methods and apparatus for automatic item placement" was invented by Kunlei Lian (Bentonville, Ark.), Cai Gao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Cong Guo (San Ramon, Calif.) and Mingang Fu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to automated processes for assigning item containers, such as boxes, to a location on a shipping container, such as a pallet. For example, a computing device may receive an item assignment request identifying a plurality of item containers, and determines a subset of the plurality of item containers for assign...