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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2023
Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);
Tiantian Nie, Fremont, CA (US);
Xiaojie Wang, Redmond, WA (US);
Ti Zhang, Rocklin, CA (US);
Jing Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Mingang Fu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
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 of a trailer; determining that at least one of (a) there is an empty floor spot in the first load plan for the trailer or (b) the first load plan is infeasible; determining a target number of stacks for an updated load plan; iterating, via simulated annealing, through modifications to the updated load plan; terminating the iterating when a predetermined termination criteria is satisfied; and outputting the updated load plan. Other embodiments are disclosed.