US Patent Issued to Coupang on Oct. 21 for "Managing allocation of workstations in fulfillment center" (South Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,211, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Coupang Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Managing allocation of workstations in fulfillment center" was invented by Matthew Cornford (Seoul, South Korea), Bragadesh Rajaraman (Taipei, Taiwan), Xiufang Zhu (Beijing) and Venkataraja Nellore (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing workstation allocation in a fulfillment center includes receiving a batch of orders of items associated with SKUs, determining a throughput of each of workstations based on a number of outbound SKUs leaving one workstation per unit time, determining a sales velocity of each order SKU, generat...