ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,560, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Unstacking optimization" was invented by Tiantian Nie (Fremont, Calif.), Xiaojie Wang (Redmond, Wash.), Ti Zhang (Rocklin, Calif.), Jing Huang (San Jose, Calif.) and Mingang Fu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions, that when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors, to perform: obtaining a first load plan, wherein the first load plan comprises a set of stacks assigned to floor spots o...