ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,227, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for operating a production supermarket, device for operating a production supermarket, trolley and system" was invented by Alexander Wurbs (Kempten, Germany) and Jochen Kaercher (Schondorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for operating a production supermarket (100), wherein the method comprises the following steps: receiving a first allocation (Z1) of at least one production part type and a number of production parts to at least one of a plurality of containers (C); determining a second allocation (Z2) o...