Jonathan H Schechter

US Patent:

20160145044, May 26, 2016

Filed:

Nov 24, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/552309

Inventors:

- Seattle WA, US
Jonathan Harris Schechter - Cambridge MA, US
John Joseph Enright - Somerville MA, US
Joseph W. Durham - Somerville MA, US
Ibolya Horvath - Malden MA, US
Eryk Brian Nice - Medford MA, US
Michael Harrison Decker - Concord MA, US
Peter R. Wurman - Acton MA, US
Robert Raymond Ambrogi - Manchester NH, US
Timothy Aaron Bragg - Woburn MA, US

International Classification:

B65G 1/137
G05B 15/02

Abstract:

An inventory system can receive a receipt receptacle from a shipping vehicle. The receipt receptacle can be moved to a case shuttle without separating or sorting inventory items in the receipt receptacle. A mobile drive unit can move the case shuttle to a receiving station, where the receipt receptacle can be removed and where the inventory items can be stowed in a pickable inventory holder. A mobile drive unit can move the pickable inventory holder to an order-compiling station, where inventory items can be picked from the inventory holder into order receptacles. A mobile drive unit can move an order shuttle carrying order receptacles with completed orders to a shipping station, where the completed order receptacles can be transferred to a shipping vehicle.

US Patent:

20160145045, May 26, 2016

Filed:

Nov 24, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/552334

Inventors:

- Seattle WA, US
John Joseph Enright - Somerville MA, US
Joseph W. Durham - Somerville MA, US
Michael Harrison Decker - Concord MA, US
Jonathan Harris Schechter - Cambridge MA, US
Peter R. Wurman - Acton MA, US
Eryk Brian Nice - Medford MA, US

International Classification:

B65G 1/137
G05D 1/02
G06Q 10/08

Abstract:

An inventory system can include multiple floors. The system can assign operations involving inventory items to a floor based on information about the floor, other floors, the operations, and/or the inventory items. In one example, the system may assign an order to be assembled on a floor based on the floor containing items for the order. Items may be moved to the floor from other floors to complete the order. In another example, a receipt receptacle received from a shipping vehicle can be moved to a rack without separating inventory items from the receipt vehicle. A mobile drive unit can move the rack to a floor based on information known about the inventory items matching criteria about the floor.