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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2014
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Michael Cordell Mountz, Lexington, MA (US);
Jonathan Harris Schechter, Cambridge, MA (US);
John Joseph Enright, Somerville, MA (US);
Joseph W. Durham, Somerville, MA (US);
Ibolya Horvath, Malden, MA (US);
Eryk Brian Nice, Medford, MA (US);
Michael Harrison Decker, Concord, MA (US);
Peter R. Wurman, Acton, MA (US);
Robert Raymond Ambrogi, Manchester, NH (US);
Timothy Aaron Bragg, Woburn, MA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
An inventory system can receive a receipt receptacle from a shipping vehicle. The receipt receptacle can be moved to a case shuttle without separating or sorting inventory items in the receipt receptacle. A mobile drive unit can move the case shuttle to a receiving station, where the receipt receptacle can be removed and where the inventory items can be stowed in a pickable inventory holder. A mobile drive unit can move the pickable inventory holder to an order-compiling station, where inventory items can be picked from the inventory holder into order receptacles. A mobile drive unit can move an order shuttle carrying order receptacles with completed orders to a shipping station, where the completed order receptacles can be transferred to a shipping vehicle.