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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 16, 2017
Applicant:

Locus Robotics Corp., Wilmington, MA (US);

Inventors:

Bruce Welty, Boston, MA (US);

Sean Johnson, Danvers, MA (US);

Luis Jaquez, Burlington, MA (US);

Michael Charles Johnson, Ashland, MA (US);

Assignee:

Locus Robotics Corp., Wilmington, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2018.01); B65G 1/04 (2006.01); B65G 1/137 (2006.01); B25J 5/00 (2006.01); G06Q 10/08 (2012.01); G06Q 50/28 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 1/0492 (2013.01); B25J 5/007 (2013.01); B65G 1/1373 (2013.01); G06Q 10/08 (2013.01); G06Q 50/28 (2013.01);
Abstract

A robot capable of autonomously navigating through a warehouse to execute orders on items at locations in the warehouse with the assistance of the human operators. There is a mobile base unit and a display device associated with the mobile base unit having a display area to allow the human operators to interact with the robot. And, there is a processor configured to display on a first portion of the display area information corresponding to an item on which an operator is to assist the robot execute the order at a first location and to display on a second portion of the display area icons representing other robots within a predetermined area surrounding the first location.


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