US Patent Issued to Staples on Dec. 23 for "Automated robotic replenishment system" (Massachusetts, Florida, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,308, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Staples Inc. (Framingham, Mass.).

"Automated robotic replenishment system" was invented by Matthew Robert Douglas (Orlando, Fla.), Paolo Gerli (Westborough, Mass.), Gregory Patrick Cox (Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.), Amit Kalra (Acton, Mass.), Brandon Lam (Rockland, Mass.), Ruchi Tewari (Hopkinton, Mass.), Daniel Jarvis (Holliston, Mass.), Nikhil Variar (Needham, Mass.) and Naveen Challapalli (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated robotic replenishment system is described. In an example implementation, the system may include containers adapted to hold items; container transportati...