ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,480, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Nimble Robotics Inc. (San Francisco).
"Robotic order fulfilment system" was invented by Simon Kalouche (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic order fulfilment system for picking inventory. The system includes a piece picking robot configured to pick inventory from a plurality of containers arranged on shelving. The robot includes a base moveable relative to the shelving in a horizontal direction, a vertical post extending from the base, a platform linearly moveable along the vertical post, a suction system arranged to secure and move a select one of the containers from the shel...