US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on Nov. 18 for "Systems and methods for optimizing space utilization of containers at retail storage facilities" (New York, New Jersey, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,432, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for optimizing space utilization of containers at retail storage facilities" was invented by Vivek Tomar (Cincinnati), Rei Siew Hew Sam (New York) and Sunada Chakravarthy (Metuchen, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated storage and retrieval systems for managing storage of inventory at a retail facility include a storage structure with storage locations configured to store containers that contain retail products, and a container transport system that transports the containers between the storage locations and a decanting stati...