US Patent Issued to Staples on Feb. 10 for "Hybrid modular storage fetching system" (New Jersey, Washington, Massachusetts, Florida, Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,982, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Staples Inc. (Framingham, Mass.).

"Hybrid modular storage fetching system" was invented by Daniel Jarvis (Orlando, Fla.), Paolo Gerli Amador (Framingham, Mass.), Michael Bhaskaran (Seattle), Vikranth Gopalakrishnan (Hoboken, N.J.) and Rodney Gallaway (Little Rock, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid modular storage fetching system is described. In an example implementation, the system may include a warehouse execution system adapted to generate a picking schedule for picking pick-to-cart and high-density storage items, and an AGV dispatching system adapted to dispatch a cart automated ...