ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,565, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"System for inbound item preparation in a fulfillment facility" was invented by Jeremiah Constant (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.), Mohanraj Subramaniam (Carver, Minn.), Jonathan Lawman (Dayton, Minn.), Kapil Gangwal (Corcoran, Minn.), Marquise Allen (Plymouth, Minn.), Richard Hines (Plymouth, Minn.), Miranda Orr (Elkader, Iowa), Noah E Dahlien (Minneapolis), Carissa Staples (Saint Louis Park, Minn.), Simhan Mahesh Puduppadi Kuppaswamy (Plymouth, Minn.) and Matthew Anderson (Blaine, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology provides for preparin...