ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,462, issued on May 19, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).
"Shelf status determination" was invented by Guancyun Li (Miaoli County, Taiwan) and Ching-Jung Chang (Taichung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided. The method includes performing a first stocking operation associated with a first shelving unit using a stocking vehicle. The first stocking operation includes a put operation including transferring a first product unit from a load support component of the stocking vehicle to a first storage location over the first shelving unit, or a get operation including trans...