ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,990, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Automatic generation of flexible load design" was invented by Ou Sun (Bentonville, Ark.), Minghui Liu (San Bruno, Calif.), Jing Huang (San Jose, Calif.), Mingang Fu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Joseph Wayne Hendricks (Bentonville, Ark.) and Jamie Lee Hamilton (Dallas).

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 operations: receiving a load design for loadin...