Automatic transportation of pallets of goods

US11479411B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Lineage Logistics, LLC · US

Inventors

• Christopher Frank Eckman · San Francisco, US
• Daniël Walet · Oakland, US
• Elliott Gerard Wolf · San Francisco, US
• Frank Baijens · Irvine, US
• Sudarsan Thattai · Rancho Palos Verdes, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 19, 2020
• Grant date: Oct 25, 2022
• Expiry date: Oct 19, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/08
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A layer pick system optimizes usage of a layer picker gantry or robotic arm by arranging and/or displacing the gantry or arm in optimal locations with respect to one or more groups of pallets, and/or by grouping pallets by their attributes and arranging the same group of pallets close to each other. In some implementations, a plurality of pallets is categorized into multiple groups by different velocities.