Automated warehouse fulfillment operations and system
US11136192B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 6, 2017 |
| Grant date | Oct 5, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 4, 2038 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q10/087
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A method and apparatus of moving a picker on an automatically guided vehicle (AGV) along with a plurality of totes to a successive plurality of inventory stock bins to allow the picker to successively retrieve each of a plurality of stock items from the stock bins and place the respective items in a preselected one of the plurality of totes based on a customer order. In some embodiments, the picker is a human picker. In some embodiments, the totes are shipping containers.
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