US 12,293,323 B2
Autonomous loading and unloading of packages relating to a vehicle
Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla, Visakhapatnam (IN); Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Kolkata (IN); and Venkata Ratnam Alubelli, Visakhapatnam (IN)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Sep. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/929,158.
Prior Publication US 2024/0078498 A1, Mar. 7, 2024
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/08 (2024.01); G06Q 10/083 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 10/083 (2013.01) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for routing one or more packages and delivering the one or more packages into one or more storage space belonging to one or more autonomous vehicles from a location of one or more vendors, the computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, by one or more vendors, an order request from one or more customers, wherein the order request comprise, one or more items and identifying information of the one or more autonomous vehicles;
verifying available inventory of requested items by the one or more vendors;
receiving status of the requested items from the one or more vendors;
retrieving the requested items and placing the requested items into one or more packages;
receiving vehicle status from the one or more autonomous vehicles;
receiving a parking location from the one or more autonomous vehicles;
receiving status from one or more automated delivery units, wherein the one or more automated delivery units is a plurality of robotic units with robotic arms and travels a long one or more paths from the one or more vendors to the parking location, wherein first path of one or more automated delivery paths is a path along an overhead rail track, above and parallel to the parking location;
determining an optimal routing path for the requested items based on the order request, status from a first automated delivery unit of the one or more automated delivery units, the parking location and the vehicle status, wherein the first automated delivery unit of the one or more automated delivery units, further comprises:
a first robotic delivery unit that travels along the first path of one or more automated delivery paths; and
a trunk of the one or more autonomous vehicle that is accessible by the first robotic delivery unit, wherein and the trunk contains the one or more storage space for storing the one or more packages; and
executing the optimal routing path by instructing the one or more autonomous vehicle to park in a designated parking spot and the one or more automated delivery units to deliver the one or more packages to the designated parking spot.