According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a patent application by the inventors Challapalli, Naveen (Cambridge, MA, US); Cox, Gregory Patrick (Sleepy Hollow, NY, US); Douglas, Matthew Robert (Orlando, FL, US); Gerli, Paolo (Westborough, MA, US); Jarvis, Daniel (Holliston, MA, US); Kalra, Amit (Acton, MA, US); Lam, Brandon (Rockland, MA, US); Tewari, Ruchi (Hopkinton, MA, US); Variar, Nikhil (Needham, MA, US), filed on August 4, 2022, was made available online on February 8, 2024. No assignee for this patent application has been made. Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “This application relates to warehouse fulfillment systems. For example, this application relates to an automated system for replenishing storage units.