Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Proximity directed stowage
- Patent Title (中): 接近定向存放
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Application No.: US14869714Application Date: 2015-09-29
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Publication No.: US09382068B1Publication Date: 2016-07-05
- Inventor: Adrian Christopher Quan , Jamie Marie Holland , Kimberly Anne Lewis , Benjamin Lee Farrow
- 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: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
- Main IPC: G06F7/00
- IPC: G06F7/00 ; B65G1/137

Abstract:
Features are disclosed for using location awareness, bin capacity, and environmental cues to provide in context guidance to the associate when stowing items such as at a fulfillment center. In accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, the associate may scan an item he or she may want to stow. In response, lights on the bins in the associate's vicinity are illuminated to indicate bins in which the item can be stowed (e.g., because the item fits in the bin) without breaking stow etiquette. For example, in order to prevent mix up, stow etiquette may indicate that two types of erasers should not be stored in the same bin. As yet another example, stow etiquette may indicate that an item should not be stowed in a bin, even if it fits and there is room, so that a total weight for the bin is not exceeded.
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