US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on July 15 for "Methods and apparatus for generating planograms" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,379, issued on July 15, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Methods and apparatus for generating planograms" was invented by Saeid Rasulkhani (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a system may be configured to execute the instructions to, based at least on the modular data of a shelf modular implement a set of modular placement optimization operations that generate a first modular dataset. In some examples, the set of modular placement optimization operations include, determining, from a group of items, a combination of items to place onto a shelf modular, and, for each item of the co...