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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2022
Applicant:
United States Postal Service, Washington, DC (US);
Inventor:
Scott R. Bombaugh, Burke, VA (US);
Assignee:
United States Postal Service, Washington, DC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B07C 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B07C 3/006 (2013.01); B07C 3/008 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for sorting items for delivery to delivery points, using delivery point compression. Items can be sorted and sequenced for delivery by a sorting machine having a finite number of sorting destinations. For routes having more delivery points than the number of sorting destinations, delivery point compression allows sorting destination assignments that eliminate delivery points not likely to receive any items. Sorting destination assignments can be performed by a processor of the sorting machine based on expected item information and delivery point item frequency scores.