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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021
Filed:
May. 02, 2018
Applicant:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Le Zou, Cambridge, MA (US);
Scott C. McLeod, Chelmsford, MA (US);
James Plumley, Pelham, NH (US);
William Schneller, North Billerica, MA (US);
Assignee:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/02 (2020.01); B65G 47/90 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0291 (2013.01); B65G 47/905 (2013.01); B65G 2203/0283 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0216 (2013.01);
Abstract
A traffic control system that controls mobile drive unit traffic within a facility by segmenting the map into smaller traffic control policy areas and controlling access to those traffic control policy areas in response to travel requests from mobile drive units.