US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on May 13 for "Systems and methods for dual optimization of pick walk and tote fill rates for order picking" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,632, issued on May 13, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for dual optimization of pick walk and tote fill rates for order picking" was invented by Pratosh D. Rajkhowa (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ameya Ajay Shendre (Bangalore, India), Shekhar Gupta (Bengaluru, India) and Pavan Kumar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems and computer-readable media are provided for dual optimization of pick walk and tote fill rates in order picking. Embodiments provide improved order picking speed and quality by optimizing pick routing with consideration of both proximity constraints an...