ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,681, issued on March 24, was assigned to Dematic GmbH (Heusenstamm, Germany).
"Method and station for picking articles according to the goods-to-man principle" was invented by Shin Yamashita (Oberursel, Germany), Yuuki Kudo (Tokyo) and Adam MacLean (Ryde, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for picking articles according to the goods-to-man principle at a picking station, in which articles are picked from product load carriers into order load carriers, the order load carriers are conveyed in a first row through the picking station, articles are presented in product load carriers and picking is carried out therefrom. Th...