US Patent Issued to Lineage Logistics on Feb. 10 for "Swapping task assignments to determine task selection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,958, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Lineage Logistics LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Swapping task assignments to determine task selection" was invented by Daniel Walet (Oakland, Calif.) and Daniel Thomas Wintz (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for ordering item-movement tasks in storage facilities. Item-movement tasks are distributed amongst queues of operators in a first state of the queues. A first value indicating utilization based on the operators performing the queues in the first state is determined. A first task from a first queue is swapped with a second task from a second que...