US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on April 7 for "System and method for picking items" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,127, issued on April 7, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"System and method for picking items" was invented by Robert E. Beach (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example transporter includes: a chassis with a locomotive assembly; a first basket supported on the chassis, the first basket configured to collect items for an order; an item sensor configured to detect the items; a picking arm supported on the chassis and having a second basket extending from the picking arm, the picking arm configured to engage the items and draw the items into the second basket; and a processor configured t...