US Patent Issued to Symbotic on Oct. 14 for "Material handling system with palletization re-planning" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,560, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Material handling system with palletization re-planning" was invented by Kirill Pankratov (Wilmington, Mass.), Ilya Erokhin (Wilmington, Mass.), Oleksandr Muzychko (Wilmington, Mass.) and Rick Youping Huang (Wilmington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A material handling system for handling, placing packages onto pallets destined for an order store, the material handling system comprising, a storage array with storage spaces for holding packages therein, an automated package transport system communicably connected to the storage array for storing packages...