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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2007
Irina M. Somin, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric Young, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Irina M. Somin, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric Young, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
System and method for sortation of picked inventory into individual orders in an order fulfillment process, for example order fulfillment processes in materials handling facilities. Collections of items picked from inventory for multiple orders are stowed to locations at a stow and sortation station. The items for a particular order may be stowed to two or more different locations, and items for two or more orders may be stowed to one location; no particular location is assigned to or reserved for each order. Thus, no space is allocated or reserved for incomplete orders at the station. When all items for a particular order are stowed to locations at the station, the order may be picked from the various locations at the station and placed into order receptacles. The order receptacles may be shipping containers.