US Patent Issued to Lineage Logistics on May 19 for "Determining pick pallet build operations and pick sequencing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,828, issued on May 19, was assigned to Lineage Logistics LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Determining pick pallet build operations and pick sequencing" was invented by Thomas Eugene Murphy (San Francisco) and Daniel Thomas Wintz (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for determining a pallet build sequence include receiving a pick order request, identifying candidate pick items in a warehouse to fulfill the request, grouping the items based on aisles and generating aisle-based lists per group, and sorting each list based on location of each of the items per group from front to back of the warehouse. For each list, the...