ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,514, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dematic GmbH (Heusenstamm, Germany).

"System and method for processing a multiplicity of picking orders with a plurality of articles" was invented by Thomas Wolff (Munster, Germany) and Juri Felker (Wiesbaden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for processing picking orders each having a plurality of articles, includes a replenishing storage, at least one reloading station connected to the replenishing storage for reloading of articles for hanging transportation, and a buffer storage connected to the reloading station with parallel circulating storages for hanging transports. A con...