US Patent Issued to WALMART APOLLO on July 8 for "Systems and methods for assembling merchandise ordered by customers and subject to multiple retrieval systems" (Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,394, issued on July 8, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for assembling merchandise ordered by customers and subject to multiple retrieval systems" was invented by Brian C. Roth (Bentonville, Ark.) and Paul E. Durkee (Centerton, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided systems and methods for assembling merchandise ordered by customers, such as at shopping facilities. In one form, the system includes: a shopping order interface for receiving merchandise orders; a shopping facility including a merchandise pickup area and a merchandise assembly area; an automated retrieval system ...