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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2014
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Michael Cordell Mountz, Lexington, MA (US);
John Joseph Enright, Somerville, MA (US);
Joseph W. Durham, Somerville, MA (US);
Michael Harrison Decker, Concord, MA (US);
Jonathan Harris Schechter, Cambridge, MA (US);
Peter R. Wurman, Acton, MA (US);
Eryk Brian Nice, Medford, MA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
An inventory system can include multiple floors. The system can assign operations involving inventory items to a floor based on information about the floor, other floors, the operations, and/or the inventory items. In one example, the system may assign an order to be assembled on a floor based on the floor containing items for the order. Items may be moved to the floor from other floors to complete the order. In another example, a receipt receptacle received from a shipping vehicle can be moved to a rack without separating inventory items from the receipt vehicle. A mobile drive unit can move the rack to a floor based on information known about the inventory items matching criteria about the floor.