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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2019
Symbotic, Llc, Wilmington, MA (US);
John Lert, Wakefield, MA (US);
Stephen Toebes, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Robert Sullivan, Wilmington, MA (US);
Foster D. Hinshaw, Cambridge, MA (US);
Nathan Ulrich, Lee, NH (US);
Eric Peters, Carlisle, MA (US);
Symbotic, LLC, Wilmington, MA (US);
Abstract
A warehouse storage and retrieval system including an array of multilevel storage racks having at least one transfer deck, picking isles and storage areas disposed along picking isles, the storage areas being configured to hold differing loads, and a controller including a management module configured to variably size the storage areas of the array of multilevel storage rack modules and assign each of the variably sized storage areas to a corresponding one of the differing loads, wherein the storage and retrieval system is arranged to transport the differing loads for placement in the variably sized storage areas assigned by the controller.