ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,172, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Lineage Logistics LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"System and methods for determining pick aisle arrangements" was invented by Daniel Thomas Wintz (San Francisco), Daniel Walet (Oakland, Calif.), Jacob Edward Thompson (Atlanta), Elias MacGregor Mills (Brookhaven, Ga.), Natalie Novitzky (San Francisco) and Thomas Eugene Murphy (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for determining a pick area arrangement for a storage facility. A method can include retrieving, by a computer system, historic pallet information for pallet SKUs and pick area information, determining, ...