US Patent Issued to Symbotic on Nov. 3 for "Warehousing system for storing and retrieving goods in containers" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,550, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Warehousing system for storing and retrieving goods in containers" was invented by Ashish Aggarwal (Wilmington, Mass.), Rick Youping Huang (Westford, Mass.), Andrew Goodwin (Wilmington, Mass.) and Aaron Vande Ven (Wilmington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A product order fulfillment system of mixed product units, the product order fulfillment system comprising a storage array, with at least one elevated storage level, wherein mixed product units are input and distributed in the storage array in cases, of product units of common kind per case, an automated...