ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,873, issued on June 17, was assigned to BEIJING GEEKPLUS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Inventory region integrating goods preparation and picking, and inventory management system and method" was invented by Kai Liu (Beijing), Jinguo Li (Beijing) and Mengdi Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inventory region integrating goods preparation and picking, and inventory management system and method. The inventory region comprises: a plurality of high-level shelves and a plurality of picking shelves, wherein any high-level shelf of the plurality of high-level shelves comprises a shelf board, and the shelf board partitions the ...