US Patent Issued to Dematic on Oct. 21 for "Goods to person order picking with discharge mechanism" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,645, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Dematic Corp. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Goods to person order picking with discharge mechanism" was invented by Martin E. Schubilske (Brookfield, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for consolidating order items into individual or batch orders within an order fulfilment workstation and discharging the order items to a takeaway device, such as a trackable segmented conveyor. The system includes a temporary holding container at the workstation and a discharge mechanism to release or transfer the contents of the temporary container to the takeaway device. The system and method re...