Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for dynamically limiting alternate pick location attempts before shorting
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Application No.: US17327505Application Date: 2021-05-21
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Publication No.: US11691649B2Publication Date: 2023-07-04
- Inventor: Catherine Jones Franey
- Applicant: 6 RIVER SYSTEMS, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MA Waltham
- Assignee: 6 RIVER SYSTEMS, LLC
- Current Assignee: 6 RIVER SYSTEMS, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Waltham
- Agency: Foley & Lardner LLP
- Main IPC: G06Q10/087
- IPC: G06Q10/087 ; B60W60/00 ; G05D1/02

Abstract:
Disclosed are systems and methods for dynamically re-routing a pick path to an alternate pick location in response to identifying a shorted product at a pick location. The dynamic decision to re-route an autonomous vehicle is based on completion scores representing a likelihood of completing order in an autonomous vehicle, a maximum remaining time, an additional pick time, and order priorities. Based on various weights for factors of the orders, a system may re-route the autonomous vehicle to fulfill a shorted order at an alternate location when no orders have a high likelihood of completion, the additional pick time associated with re-routing the autonomous vehicle to the alternate pick location is less than the maximum remaining time for each order on the autonomous vehicle, and/or none of the orders on the autonomous vehicle have a higher priority than the shorted order.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220371626A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY LIMITING ALTERNATE PICK LOCATION ATTEMPTS BEFORE SHORTING Public/Granted day:2022-11-24
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