ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,544, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Warehouse picking system and warehouse picking method" was invented by Li-Yi Liu (Taipei, Taiwan), Po-Yu Huang (Yunlin County, Taiwan) and Wei-Kang Liang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A warehouse picking system and a warehouse picking method are provided. The warehouse picking system includes multiple cargo management stations and a management device. The management device receives multiple orders including at least one cargo, calculates an order score of each order by using an order score function; selects at leas...