ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,664, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Automated unit load fulfillment methods and systems" was invented by David Lin (San Jose, Calif.), David Dymesich (New York), Uwe Meister (El Dorado, Calif.), Mason Cole (Lambertville, Mich.), Lonai Anthraper (San Jose, Calif.), Sarah Elliott (San Jose, Calif.), Louis Abastas (San Jose, Calif.), Robert Lang (San Jose, Calif.), Melonee Wise (San Jose, Calif.), Stefan Nusser (Palo Alto, Calif.) and David Robson (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: obtaining a task definition for a mobile robot, the task definition incl...