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- Patent Title: Automated guided vehicle control and organizing inventory items using predictive models for slow item types
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Application No.: US17341003Application Date: 2021-06-07
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Publication No.: US11593756B2Publication Date: 2023-02-28
- Inventor: Sandeep Sikka , Nitin Verma , Michael Bhaskaran
- Applicant: Staples, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Framingham
- Assignee: Staples, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Staples, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Framingham
- Agency: VLP Law Group LLP
- Agent Michel Bohn
- Main IPC: G06Q10/08
- IPC: G06Q10/08 ; G06Q10/087 ; B65G1/04 ; B65G1/137 ; G06Q30/0202 ; G06N5/046 ; G05D1/00

Abstract:
In an example embodiment, a method determines a container containing one or more items associated with one or more item types, the container located at a current position in a storage facility; determines one or more order likelihoods of the one or more item types contained in the container; determines a container utilization likelihood of the container based on the one or more order likelihoods of the one or more item types contained in the container; determines an optimal position for the container in the storage facility based on the container utilization likelihood of the container, the optimal position being different from the current position of the container; and instructing an automated guided vehicle (AGV) to transport the container from the current position of the container to the optimal position of the container in the storage facility.
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