US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Feb. 4 for "Picking sequence optimization within a warehouse for an item list" (Ohio, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,203, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Picking sequence optimization within a warehouse for an item list" was invented by Xinyu Li (Kent, Ohio), Haixun Wang (Bellevue, Wash.) and Ruoming Jin (Aurora, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online concierge system receives a delivery order containing a list of items, generates a suggested picking sequence for picking the delivery order in a warehouse, and transmits the suggested picking sequence to a mobile device of the shopper. Generating the suggested sequence includes applying a trained item sequence model to the delivery order. Training the item seq...