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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:
Aug. 15, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 11, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Sean Johnson, Danvers, MA (US);

Luis Jaquez, Burlington, MA (US);

Michael Charles Johnson, Ashland, MA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/00 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B65G 1/137 (2006.01); B25J 13/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 1/1378 (2013.01); B25J 9/0009 (2013.01); B25J 9/161 (2013.01); B25J 9/1653 (2013.01); B25J 9/1679 (2013.01); B25J 9/1697 (2013.01); B25J 13/088 (2013.01); B65G 2203/041 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for presorting and executing robot-assisted putaway tasks in a navigational space include assigning each of a plurality of item storage arrays to one of a plurality of zones defined within the navigational space, scanning an item identifier of at least one of a plurality of unsorted items to be stored at locations throughout the warehouse, retrieving, in response to receiving identifying information corresponding to the at least one scanned unsorted item, item data describing a storage location for putaway within the warehouse of each of the at least one scanned items, determining, from the storage location, a corresponding one of the plurality of zones of the warehouse in which the storage location is located, and placing each scanned unsorted item into an interconnected container of one of the item storage arrays assigned to the corresponding one of the zones.


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