Nadere Mansouri

Title: Nadere Mansouri: Innovations in Transportation Load Planning

Introduction

Nadere Mansouri is an inventor based in McKinney, Texas, whose patent work focuses on computational methods for planning loads across transportation networks. His listed inventions address facility capacity, transportation modes, and transit-time flexibility. Mansouri is associated with Walmart Apollo, LLC, and has 2 patents in the information provided.

Latest Patents

**Load Selection for a Multi-Modal Transportation Network with Facility Capacity Constraints.** This invention describes a computer-implemented system for selecting loads across transportation modes while accounting for facility capacity and time windows. The system divides candidate loads into subsets aligned with facility time ranges, reduces those subsets without integer constraints, and then evaluates candidates under integer constraints to identify loads that optimize an objective function. It selects at least one load corresponding to a transportation mode.

**Slackness Allocation for Load Generation.** This invention describes a method for incorporating transit-time flexibility into load generation. It identifies a difference between a load’s transit time and a carrier’s transit time, tunes a load-generation model using a slackness allowance function, and generates time windows with corresponding penalties. The system then determines a transit time based on a selected window and its associated penalty.

Career Highlights

Mansouri’s listed patent portfolio centers on transportation logistics and optimization. The inventions use computational models to support load selection and generation while considering operational constraints, including facility capacity, time windows, and transit-time differences. His work is associated with Walmart Apollo, LLC.

Collaborations

The provided information lists Liqing Zhang and Rohan Prakash as Mansouri’s coworkers. It does not specify their roles in the patents or describe particular collaborative contributions.

Conclusion

Nadere Mansouri’s two listed patents apply computational optimization to transportation planning, with methods for selecting loads under facility constraints and allocating transit-time slackness.