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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2017
Doerfer Corporation, Waverly, IA (US);
Robert D. Ahmann, Rochester, MN (US);
Robert D. Ahmann, Rochester, MN (US);
David L. Takes, Cedar Falls, IA (US);
Gregory H. Gasch, Waverly, IA (US);
William D. Starnes, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Neil D. Bultz, Greenville, SC (US);
Doerfer Corporation, Waverly, IA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A method and apparatus of moving a picker on an automatically guided vehicle (AGV) along with a plurality of totes to a successive plurality of inventory stock bins to allow the picker to successively retrieve each of a plurality of stock items from the stock bins and place the respective items in a preselected one of the plurality of totes based on a customer order. In some embodiments, the picker is a human picker. In some embodiments, the totes are shipping containers.