ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,549, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Phononic Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Temperature-driven dynamic order sequencing in order fulfillment" was invented by Colin McAleenan (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for temperature driven dynamic order sequencing in order fulfillment are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method of controlling two or more actively cooled totes includes: determining a first ordering of the two or more actively cooled totes; determining that an alert condition occurred for an alerted tote of the two or more actively cooled totes; and determining a second ordering of the two or more...