ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,128, issued on April 7, was assigned to Dematic GmbH (Heusenstamm, Germany).
"Warehouse for order fulfilment" was invented by Shin Yamashita (Oberursel, Germany), Yoshihiro Sasaki (Chiba, Japan) and Max-Reinhard Lewandoske (Aschaffenburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A warehouse for order fulfilment with a product storage and at least one order fulfillment level in which picking stations are arranged and supplied with articles from the product storage for picking into order load carriers according to allocated orders wherein each picking station is supplied with articles from the product storage by a connecting conveyor sys...