Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Traffic control for a sort center
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Application No.: US15968967Application Date: 2018-05-02
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Publication No.: US11188097B1Publication Date: 2021-11-30
- Inventor: Le Zou , Scott C. McLeod , James Plumley , William Schneller
- Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Seattle
- Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Seattle
- Agency: BakerHostetler
- Main IPC: G05D1/02
- IPC: G05D1/02 ; B65G47/90

Abstract:
A traffic control system that controls mobile drive unit traffic within a facility by segmenting the map into smaller traffic control policy areas and controlling access to those traffic control policy areas in response to travel requests from mobile drive units.
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