ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,618, issued on May 5, was assigned to FIL ROBOTICS LTD (Binyamina, Israel).

"Automatic warehouse and a method for managing an automatic warehouse based on popularity of items" was invented by Reuven Della Torre (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Henri Garih (Binyamina, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated warehouse that may include a storage configured to store multiple items, wherein the multiple items are stored in item containers; a plurality of picking stations that comprise an asynchronous picking station and a synchronous picking station; one or more robots that are configured to convey item containers to the plurality of pick...