ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,412, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Aquabot Ltd. (Afula, Israel).
"Order fulfillment system" was invented by David Shlomo Gabrieli (Ramat Yishai, Israel), Shay Gabrieli (Ramat Yishai, Israel) and Joseph Zvi Porat (Highland Beach, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An order fulfillment system includes a plurality of stock locations for storing items, and movable collection containers, each configured to hold one or more of the items. A network of tracks along which each of the collection containers is configured to move in a single direction includes junctions where at least two of the tracks intersect, each collection container ...