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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2016
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Joseph W. Durham, Somerville, MA (US);
Scott Dresser, Boxborough, MA (US);
John Gregory Longtine, Sudbury, MA (US);
Diane Grieselhuber Mills, Wilmington, MA (US);
Parris S. Wellman, Reading, MA (US);
Steven Augustine Wilson, Sudbury, MA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A transfer rack on one floor of an inventory system can receive multiple containers each carrying an inventory item designated for an operation on a different floor of the inventory system. A vertical lift can move the transfer rack carrying the multiple containers from the one floor to the different floor. On the different floor, the multiple containers may be swapped for different multiple containers each carrying an inventory item designated for an operation on the one floor. The vertical lift may return the transfer rack carrying the different multiple containers to the one floor.