US Patent Issued to Dematic on May 19 for "Order fulfillment station operation timer and indicator" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,823, issued on May 19, was assigned to Dematic Corp. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Order fulfillment station operation timer and indicator" was invented by Timothy C. Post (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Randall J. Carlson (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Tyler Forbush (Byron Center, Mich.), Collin R. Halamka (Jenison, Mich.) and Andrew J. Kane (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time tracking and indicator system and method are provided for tracking and indicating initialization-to-completion times for order fulfilment operations, such as order packaging and shipping operations. The system includes a put-wall with multiple order storage loc...