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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2022
Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);
Pratosh Deepak Rajkhowa, Bangalore, IN;
Ameya Ajay Shendre, Bangalore, IN;
Pavan Kumar Raichur Rajoli, Bangalore, IN;
Shekhar Gupta, Bangalore, IN;
Vidyanand Krishnan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Deepak Ramesh Deshpande, San Jose, CA (US);
WALMART APOLLO, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: receiving a request for an order comprising one or more items; determining when the order is eligible for batch picking by finding one or more other orders comprising at least one of the one or more items; and when the order is determined to be eligible for batch picking with the one or more other orders: creating one or more clusters by clustering together (1) the at least one of the one or more items of the order and (2) the at least one of the one or more items of the one or more other orders; estimating, for each respective cluster of the one or more clusters, an estimated fulfillment time interval to make ready the order; and assigning each respective cluster of the one or more clusters to at least one respective picker of one or more respective pickers. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.