US Patent Issued to Staples on Dec. 9 for "Hybrid modular storage fetching system" (Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington, Florida, Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,074, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Staples Inc. (Framingham, Mass.).

"Hybrid modular storage fetching system" was invented by Daniel Jarvis (Orlando, Fla.), Paolo Gerli Amador (Framingham, Mass.), Michael Bhaskaran (Seattle), Amit Kalra (Acton, Mass.), Rodney Gallaway (Little Rock, Ark.) and Vikranth Gopalakrishnan (Hoboken, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid modular storage fetching system with a robot execution system (REX) is described. In an example implementation, a REX may induct, into the hybrid modular storage fetching system, an order identifying items to be fulfilled by automated guided vehicles (AGVs) at an or...