US Patent Issued to Dematic on June 10 for "Automated order fulfilment with opportunistic decant operations" (Texas, Michigan, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,221, issued on June 10, was assigned to Dematic Corp. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Automated order fulfilment with opportunistic decant operations" was invented by Arturo Hinojosa (Austin, Texas), Paul Hunckler (Westfield, Ind.), Bai Zou (Houston) and Jack Tuinstra (Belmont, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for opportunistically picking order items during decant processes. An order management system determines which items required for a pending order are depleted within a decant function or storage system and orders replenishment, such as inbound vendor cases containing the depleted required items, to the decant fu...