By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News-According to news reporting originatin g from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a patent application by the inve ntors GABRIELI, Shay (Ramat Yishai, IL); RINGART, Yigal Natan (Givat Ela, IL), f iled on January 16, 2022, was made available online on February 22, 2024. The assignee for this patent application is Aquabot Ltd. (Afula, Israel). Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "Increasingly, items are ordered remotely, e.g., via the inter net, smartphone applications, telephone, order management software provided by a warehouse or logistics company, or otherwise. Remote ordering enables a purchas er to order items from a convenient location, without the expense and time requi red to travel to and from a store. In particular, ordering of medications and ot her pharmaceutical products remotely may, in some cases, enable a person who is unable to travel (e.g., due to illness or other temporary or permanent disabilit y) to obtain these products conveniently and in a timely manner. Therefore, ware houses, distribution centers, or other facilities that are tasked with fulfillin g the orders must fulfill and deliver an increasing volume of orders with increa sing speed "In order to enable rapid, accurate, and efficient selection and packing of item s to fill orders, an order fulfillment facility may be automated to some extent. The automated equipment may be configured to select each item of the order (whi ch may include multiple units of single item), and collect the items of a single order into a single container (e.g., bin, basket, box, bag, or other container) . For example, an order to fill a medical prescription may include a single box of a medication, several boxes of a single type of medication, or several boxes of a variety of medications."
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