US Patent Issued to IAM Robotics on Feb. 24 for "Collaborative order fulfillment systems and methods" (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,931, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to IAM Robotics LLC (Pittsburgh).

"Collaborative order fulfillment systems and methods" was invented by Vladimir Altman (Pittsburgh), Krishna Venkatasamy (Sewickley, Pa.), Mansi David (Mars, Pa.), Marjorie Loresch (Pittsburgh), Thomas Galluzzo (Gibsonia, Pa.), Richard Rodgers (Oakmont, Pa.) and Christopher J. Sullivan (Avon, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A "meet me" model of collaboration among autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and human workers (pickers) to execute picking and putting within a logistics facility. The AMRs include an intelligent platform having an array of indicator elements ...