US Patent Issued to Bastian Solutions on May 5 for "Artificial intelligence bin recovery technique and downtime mitigation" (Idaho, Oregon, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,616, issued on May 5, was assigned to Bastian Solutions LLC (Indianapolis).

"Artificial intelligence bin recovery technique and downtime mitigation" was invented by Mark R Cass (Boise, Idaho), Amey Sunil Kulkarni (Boise, Idaho), Shelby Lynne Cass (Corvallis, Ore.), Eric Michael Smith (Dallas), Paola Andrea Gutierrez Guzman (Boise, Idaho) and Ruthvik Vaila (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes one or more robot arms configured to pick and/or place items into totes. The system is designed to reduce overall downtime. In the system, if the robot arm is unable to pick and/or place items into the tote, the system rou...