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Ocado Innovation Limited

Michael D Crouch

Timothy Deignan

Spencer Goossens

Disclosed are systems and methods for monitoring operations of autonomous vehicles within a warehouse. The autonomous vehicle's processing unit may detect when the autonomous vehicle is delayed based on one or more timers or time thresholds, such as an amount of time that the autonomous vehicle has been located at a particular location or the amount of time between when the autonomous vehicle received product picking instructions and a shipping deadline. The autonomous vehicle may also use various types of data to detect potential problems, such as determining an amount remaining battery life. Once the autonomous vehicle identified a particular triggering condition, then the autonomous vehicle may trigger an annunciator (e.g., flashing lights, sounding horn) or transmit a notification to other devices, such as client devices. The annunciators or notifications attempt to capture personnel attention to resolve the identifier problem.

Warehouse automated cart priority notifications

An apparatus for reducing the temperature of articles to the cryogenic state in reducing the temperature of embryos at a controlled and predetermined rate is disclosed comprised of a housing defining an insulated cooling chamber employed in association with support means for removably suspending the embryos within a chamber. A gaseous medium, such as, air circulates along a closed path through the chamber so that the embryos are disposed in its path and a heat exchanger including a heat transfer medium is positioned in the flow path of the gaseous medium together with a temperature sensor so that the rate of cooling may be programmed and regulated automatically by correlation of the temperature sensor with the heat exchange medium. The method comprises the steps of removably supporting embryos in an insulated chamber; positioning a heat transfer medium therein; circulating air or another gaseous medium through the chamber across the heat transfer medium and the embryos; and programming the rate of cooling of the air by imposing close control over the temperature of the heat transfer medium while avoiding uneven temperature zones in the chamber.

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Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

Michael D Crouch