ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,680, issued on March 24, was assigned to Dematic GmbH (Heusenstamm, Germany).

"Warehouse for order fulfilment with a product storage and at least one order fulfillment area" was invented by Shin Yamashita (Oberursel, Germany), Hiroki Shinohara (Urayasu, Japan) and Daniel Huberth (Aschaffenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A warehouse for order fulfilment with at least one order fulfillment area in which picking stations are arranged and supplied with articles from a product storage for picking orders wherein each picking station is supplied and collected with product containers by a connecting conveyor system and the conn...