US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Solutions on April 29 for "Autonomous product picking system and method" (Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,637, issued on April 29, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Switzerland).

"Autonomous product picking system and method" was invented by Swapnilsinh Solanki (Harrisburg, Pa.), Xinping Deng (Lancaster, Pa.), Jiankun Zhou (Mechanicsburg, Pa.), Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu (Bellevue, Wash.) and Fabio E. Massaro (High Point, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous product picking system includes product pick up stations at different locations within a facility having call stations with activation buttons at a user interface activated by an operator to transmit call requests when the products are needed to be picked up an...