US Patent Issued to Tompkins Robotics on June 17 for "Storage, retrieval and order sortation arranged in vertical orientation" (Florida, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,875, issued on June 17, was assigned to Tompkins Robotics Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Storage, retrieval and order sortation arranged in vertical orientation" was invented by James M. Serstad (Orlando, Fla.), Michael C. Futch (Cocoa, Fla.) and Parthiban A. Mathavan (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Order fulfillment system comprises an order sortation system and an article storage and retrieval system positioned directly above the order sortation system. A controller is configured to: receive an order; direct a retrieval mechanism to move a storage bin containing a first article required for the order to an output station; determ...