US Patent Issued to Ocado Innovation on May 27 for "Systems and methods for order processing" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,170, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ocado Innovation Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).

"Systems and methods for order processing" was invented by Lars Sverker Ture Lindbo (Hatfield, Great Britain), Andrew John Ingram-Tedd (Hatfield, Great Britain), Stuart Richard North (Hatfield, Great Britain) and Robert Rolf Stadie (Hatfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and machine-executable coded instruction sets are disclosed for fully- and/or partly automated handling of goods. The disclosure provides improvements in the storage and retrieval of storage and delivery containers in order processing systems."

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