US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods of decanting inventory products from cases at a retail facility" (New York, Georgia, New Jersey, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,657, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods of decanting inventory products from cases at a retail facility" was invented by Sunada Chakravarthy (Metuchen, N.J.), Vivek Tomar (Cincinnati), Rei Siew Hew Sam (New York) and Kaiwen Luo (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for decanting inventory products from cases at a retail facility include a loading zone that receives product cases, decanting stations having associated containers with an amount of available space therein, and a decanting transport system that transports the product cases from the loading zone to the ...