Abstract
The patent’s assignee for patent number 11911803 is Staples Inc. (Framingham, Ma ssachusetts, United States). News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors: “This application relates to warehouse fulfillment systems. For example, this application relates to an automated system for sorting and pa cking items. “Some current fulfillment systems use drag-along carts onto which items are plac ed by pickers. The pickers may place the items into shipping cartons to be shipp ed to customers. Other fulfillment systems may use robots to bring items to pick ers, who then manually place the items into shipping cartons. Some fulfillment s ystems divide inventory into a series of zones and use carts, robots, or conveyo r belts to move items between zones, but many of the operations are performed ma nually. Such manual processes require human pickers to follow many instructions, which leads to significant errors by the human pickers and fatigue.”
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