US 12,437,261 B2
Automated order consolidation and packaging mechanism
Pareiya Gupta, Haryana (IN); Gnanaprakash Muthusamy, Haryana (IN); Gaurav Kejriwal, Uttar Pradesh (IN); and Yashant Taneja, Haryana (IN)
Assigned to Grey Orange Inc., Roswell, GA (US)
Filed by Grey Orange Inc., Roswell, GA (US)
Filed on Dec. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/067,210.
Claims priority of application No. 202141058824 (IN), filed on Dec. 16, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0196280 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/087 (2023.01); G06Q 10/10 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 10/087 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An order consolidation system comprising:
a first robotic apparatus;
a second robotic apparatus;
a third robotic apparatus;
an order consolidation station that is equipped with a plurality of order consolidation sections, wherein a first order consolidation section of the plurality of order consolidation sections comprises a plurality of rollers; and
a control server configured to automatically:
estimate a first threshold distance from a first side of the first order consolidation section and a second threshold distance from a second side of the first order consolidation section;
detect that the first robotic apparatus and the second robotic apparatus have arrived at the first side of the first order consolidation section and are within the first threshold distance of the first order consolidation section;
receive item data associated with at least one of the first item and the second item based on the detection that the first robotic apparatus and the second robotic apparatus have arrived at the first side and are within the first threshold distance of the first order consolidation section, and a placement of at least one of the first item and the second item on the first order consolidation section, respectively;
determine a match between the received item data of the first item and the second item and stored item data associated with the first item and the second item, respectively;
activate, the plurality of rollers, based on the match between the received item data and the stored item data of each of the first item and the second item;
detect that the third robotic apparatus has arrived at the second side of the first order consolidation section and is within the second threshold distance of the first order consolidation section;
control, by way of the activated plurality of rollers, transfer of the first item and the second item to the third robotic apparatus based on the detection that the third robotic apparatus has arrived at the second side and is within the second threshold distance; and
control the third robotic apparatus to automatically transport the first item and the second item for packaging a first order that includes the first item and the second item.