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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2016
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Peter R. Wurman, Acton, MA (US);
Jeremiah David Brazeau, Hudson, NH (US);
Pardeep Singh Farwaha, Medford, MA (US);
Ryan Alexander Holt, North Andover, MA (US);
Joseph W. Durham, Somerville, MA (US);
John Joseph Enright, Somerville, MA (US);
Alex Glazkov, Boston, MA (US);
Jared Brian Holcomb, Haverhill, MA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Inventory holders in an inventory system can be moved among differing storage positions. The moves can be performed by mobile drive units not otherwise transporting inventory holders directly to or from inventory stations. A free mobile drive unit can move an inventory holder not likely to be useful soon at any nearby station from a storage position near the station to a position farther away from the station. A mobile drive unit can move an inventory holder likely to be useful soon from a storage position farther away from one or more stations to a storage position nearby one or more stations.