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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2022
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Rohit Malshe, Kirkland, WA (US);
Renan Garcia, Austin, TX (US);
Dipal Patel Gupta, Issaquah, WA (US);
Jin Ye, Kirkland, WA (US);
Liron David Yedidsion, Redmond, WA (US);
Abhilasha Prakash Katariya, Issaquah, WA (US);
Chinmoy Mohapatra, Bellevue, WA (US);
David Joseph Gasperino, Lake Forest Park, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A pod is designed to include layers of bins or slots for accommodating items. The pod includes a frame having fixed dimensions, e.g., heights, depths and widths, and opposing exposed frames. The layers have heights and depths that are defined by the respective bins or slots, and aggregate widths that are consistent with widths of the pods. Where a set of items is known, the items are assumed to have cuboidal shapes, and subsets of the items having one, two, three or four of the items are defined. Subsets assigned to bins or slots of a layer, such that one of the items is assigned to only one bin or slot. A number of layers required to store, sort or route the subsets of items throughout a facility may be determined, and installed within any number of pods.