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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:
Jul. 02, 2024

Filed:

Feb. 01, 2021
Applicant:

Sparck Technologies B.v., Drachten, NL;

Inventors:

Michel van Wonderen, Drachten, NL;

Aise Bouma, Drachten, NL;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 5/06 (2006.01); B65B 59/00 (2006.01); B65G 1/137 (2006.01); G06Q 10/087 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 5/06 (2013.01); B65B 59/001 (2019.05); B65G 1/1378 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of assisting error recovery in an automated packaging process of packaging shipment sets of one or more items, said packaging process comprising a plurality of processing stages, the method comprising: at an entry stage of the automated packaging process, for each shipment set: assigning a unique processing set identifier to the shipment set: obtaining processing data for the shipment set, acquiring a representation of the shipment set, and recording a dataset by associating said unique processing set identifier with the processing data of said shipment set and with said representation; and on occurrence of a processing error affecting a shipment set: obtaining a collection of datasets of each shipment set potentially affected, configuring a user interface at the entry stage with the representations of the shipment sets in said collection and for allowing selecting an affected shipment set, and receiving selections via the user interface a shipment set of re-entering and re-entering he items(s) of the affected shipment sets into the automated packaging process using the processing data recorded in the dataset of the selected shipment set.


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