ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,910, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dematic Corp. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).
"Order fulfillment operator tracker" was invented by Michael S. Khodl (Grand Rapids, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for verifying a pick/put operation within an order fulfilment workstation or a storage rack. An optical device observes an operator performing a pick/put operation at the workstation. An indicia is located on the operator such that it is visible to the optical device. Image data of the indicia captured by the optical device is transmitted to a control system of the workstation. The control system determines ...