US Patent Issued to LAFAYETTE SYSTEMS CANADA on July 21 for "Automated storage and retrieval system reducing bin moves by selecting multi-stock bins containing highest number of SKUs on workstation stock waitlist" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,563, issued on July 21, was assigned to LAFAYETTE SYSTEMS CANADA ULC (Calgary, Canada).

"Automated storage and retrieval system reducing bin moves by selecting multi-stock bins containing highest number of SKUs on workstation stock waitlist" was invented by Scott Gravelle (Calgary, Canada), Douglas Raymond Langen (Calgary, Canada) and Spencer Hayes Nichols (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated storage and retrieval system stores multi-stock bins each holding different stock-keeping units (SKUs). Records dynamically track which SKUs are in each bin. A controller tracks a stock waitlist indicating quantities of S...