US 11,911,800 B2
Commingling physical tray boundaries
Charles Preston, Orangevale, CA (US); and Marc Fagan, Folsom, CA (US)
Assigned to Broadridge Output Solutions, Inc., Newark, NJ (US)
Filed by Broadridge Output Solutions, Inc., Newark, NJ (US)
Filed on Jul. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/373,449.
Application 17/373,449 is a continuation of application No. 15/662,690, filed on Jul. 28, 2017, granted, now 11,059,073, issued on Jul. 13, 2021.
Application 15/662,690 is a continuation in part of application No. 14/228,517, filed on Mar. 28, 2014, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/806,314, filed on Mar. 28, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2021/0339288 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B07C 3/18 (2006.01); B07C 3/02 (2006.01); G06K 7/14 (2006.01)
CPC B07C 3/18 (2013.01) [B07C 3/02 (2013.01); G06K 7/1413 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
determining that a mail piece to be sorted is a first current mail piece of a plurality of current mail pieces to be directed to a respective bin of a plurality of bins of a mail sorting equipment;
preventing any current mail piece of the plurality of current mail pieces to be routed to the respective bin based on particular information; and
instructing a mail piece elevator to route the plurality of current mail pieces to the respective bin based on the particular information.