Optimizing pallet location in a warehouse

US11436560B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Lineage Logistics, LLC · US

Inventors

• Daniel Thomas Wintz · San Francisco, US
• Michael Lingzhi Li · Toronto, CA
• Elliott Gerard Wolf · San Francisco, US
• Chloe Mawer · San Francisco, US
• Caitlin Voegele · San Francisco, US
• Zhou Fang · Beijing, CN
• Maya Ileana Choudhury · Aloma, US
• Julia Long · Durham, US
• Sudarsan Thattai · Rancho Palos Verdes, US
• Jeffrey Alvarez Rivera · Northville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 5, 2020
• Grant date: Sep 6, 2022
• Expiry date: Feb 25, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/0838
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A computer-based technology is provided to optimize a warehouse space, such as warehouse racks. The technology determines a storage duration of a pallet in a warehouse, and further determines an optimal storage location for the pallet in the warehouse. For example, the technology can determine how long an inbound pallet will stay in a warehouse, and locate an optimal area of the warehouse to store the pallet. Such an optimal pallet storage area is selected to reduce labor costs in transporting the pallet in, within, and out of the warehouse and further optimize the management of multiple pallets in the warehouse as a whole. In addition, the technology can consider the size of the pallet in determining the optimal storage location in the warehouse.