US Patent Issued to OCADO INNOVATION on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for determining dynamic substitutions to minimize distance" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,951, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to OCADO INNOVATION Ltd..

"Systems and methods for determining dynamic substitutions to minimize distance" was invented by Catherine Jones Franey (Waltham, Mass.), Nikita Ivanov (Malden, Mass.), Timothy Deignan (Watertown, Mass.) and Jeffrey Choate (Hollis, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for identifying an available product for an unavailable product to minimize a deviation or distance from an original planned pick path. A computer can transmit instructions corresponding to a path through a location where products are stored to collect a plurality of products...