US Patent Issued to HITACHI on May 5 for "Slot allocation and work instructions method for sorting system" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,948, issued on May 5, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Slot allocation and work instructions method for sorting system" was invented by Daisuke Katsumata (Jenison, Mich.), Takaharu Matsui (Holland, Mich.), Takafumi Chida (Tokyo), Norisuke Fujii (Tokyo) and Kohei Miyata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for sorting a plurality of items and slot allocation in association with the plurality of items. The method may include collecting order data and slot data, wherein the slot data is information associated with a plurality of slots, each slot of the plurality of slots allows for placement of item bag over slot, and the ...