ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,943, issued on June 16, was assigned to BEIJING GEEKPLUS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Item sorting system and method" was invented by Qiufeng Lan (Beijing), Qian Zhang (Beijing), Dong Liang (Beijing) and Feng Peng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An item sorting system includes a control server, a first robot, and a second robot, which respectively communicate with the control server and run in a storage area of the item sorting system. The storage area is deployed with at least one item-collecting container, each including at least two sub-compartments. The control server determines a target sub-compartment of the item-col...