ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,311, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to inVia Robotics Inc. (Westlake Village, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for optimizing order fulfillment" was invented by Kaveh Kamgar (West Hills, Calif.), Lior Elazary (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Randolph Charles Voorhies (Newbury Park, Calif.), William Shane Simpson Grant (Van Nuys, Calif.), Sagar Pandya (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Daniel Frank Parks II (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system and associated methods for optimizing order fulfillment. The system determines the containers in a site with items for a set of received orders, and reserves different slot types of an ...