ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,743, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to OCADO INNOVATION Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).
"Storage and retrieval system" was invented by Amaan Ahmad (Hatfield, Great Britain) and Andrew Ingram-Tedd (Hatfield, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a storage and retrieval system comprising a plurality of storage containers. The method comprises, for each storage container, storing a contents record comprising, for each item previously determined to be contained in the storage container, an item type and a bounding box. Upon receiving an indication that an item of a specified item type has been added to plurali...