ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,922, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).
"System and method for warehouse picking using tote containers" was invented by James Benjamin Edwards (Centerton, Ark.), Brian C. Roth (Bentonville, Ark.) and Paul E. Durkee (Centerton, Ark.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parent tote container is segmented into smaller, child tote containers. Each of the child tote containers includes products that are commonly sold together and are removed from the tote containers at picker stations with the same type of picker mechanism. Items are moved from the child tote containers to a customer order tote containe...