ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,079, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Pramana Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"System and method for optimizing slide pick basket operations" was invented by Mohammad Abdul Sulaiman (Andhra Pradesh, India), Omkar Appasaheb Kabadagi (Bangalore, India), Vaishnavi K B (Bengaluru, India), Rameesh Varshan (Tamil Nadu, India), Nitesh Kumar (Bengaluru, India) and Prasanth Perugupalli (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for optimizing slide pick basket operations, wherein the system includes at least a robotic arm, at least a processor, and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor, wherein the memory contains...