ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,502, issued on June 3, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).
"Order fulfillment system" was invented by John G. Lert Jr. (Wakefield, Mass.) and William J. Fosnight (Windham, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An order fulfillment system is disclosed including a multi-level tote storage structure, one or more autonomous mobile robots configured to pick, transport and place one or more tote; one or more workstations configured to accommodate a picker that transports one or more eaches from a tote on one of the autonomous mobile robots to a "put" location, wherein the autonomous mobile robots are configured to move from leve...