Matthew Edwin Alexander

US Patent:

20190259150, Aug 22, 2019

Filed:

Feb 20, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/280694

Inventors:

- Bentonville AR, US
Robert Cantrell - Herndon VA, US
Brian Gerard McHale - Oldham, GB
Matthew David Alexander - Rogers AR, US
Jeremy Velten - Bella Vista AR, US
William Mark Propes - Bentonville AR, US

International Classification:

G06T 7/00
G05D 1/00
B64C 39/02
G06F 16/903

Abstract:

Described in detail herein is an automated marking system. The autonomous robot device can locate and identify one or more cases stored in at least one of a plurality of bins in the first location of the facility, wherein each case containing a set of like physical objects. The autonomous robot device can transmit identifying information of the at least one of the one or more cases to the computing system. The computing system can determine a priority for a quantity of the first set of like physical objects to be moved from the at least one of the one or more cases to the second location of the facility. The computing system can instruct the at least one autonomous robot device to mark the at least one of the one or more cases with an identifying mark denoting the determined priority.