Patents by Inventor Christopher Cacioppo
Christopher Cacioppo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230271784Abstract: A warehouse automation system adapted to improve warehouse operating productivity includes a plurality of carts for transporting products within a warehouse and a controller. The controller is adapted to associate a first one of the plurality of carts with a first person and to control the first cart to lead the first person around the warehouse. According to one advantage, the time the first person spends restocking, picking, counting, sorting, moving, and packing product into customer orders and shipments, for example, is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Rylan Hamilton, Jerome Dubois, Christopher Cacioppo, Timothy Higgins
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Publication number: 20230229161Abstract: Methods and apparatus for making autonomous vehicle handover decisions are described. A handover decision involves deciding if an autonomous vehicle should be handed off from one worker to another worker. The methods allow for decisions to be made in real or near real time shortly before an autonomous vehicle changes location. Worker time, if a handover is not implemented, is considered including the amount of worker time involved with the worker moving with the autonomous vehicle to the new location as compared to a new worker meeting the autonomous vehicle at the new location or on the way to the new location. Handover decisions can consider worker distribution and/or order priority. Such factors can be used to weight one or more time based cost values with a cost value representation of the cost if a handover is not implemented vs implementing a handover being compared to make the handover decision.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: 6 RIVER SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Christopher Cacioppo, Corey Simons
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Patent number: 11685602Abstract: A warehouse automation system adapted to improve warehouse operating productivity includes a plurality of carts for transporting products within a warehouse and a controller. The controller is adapted to associate a first one of the plurality of carts with a first person and to control the first cart to lead the first person around the warehouse. According to one advantage, the time the first person spends restocking, picking, counting, sorting, moving, and packing product into customer orders and shipments, for example, is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: 6 River Systems, LLCInventors: Rylan Hamilton, Jerome Dubois, Christopher Cacioppo, Timothy Higgins
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Publication number: 20230156158Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for monitoring inventory within a warehouse using mediate data streams. A server monitors and manages camera data streams for particular footage or segments of interest associated with exceptions of product inventory, such as misplaced or missing products. The server receives media data from cameras of a warehouse. The server may receive or detect an exception, which indicates the nature of the exception, the product, and other information. In response, the server performs certain actions, including selecting or identifying target cameras that produced footage of the product. The server extracts segments of the media from the selected cameras according to timestamps associated with the exception. The server then sends the segments to a client device for review, and stores the segments into a database.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: William Moyne, Christopher Cacioppo, Dimitrios Nikitopoulos
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Patent number: 11635757Abstract: Methods and apparatus for making autonomous vehicle handover decisions are described. A handover decision involves deciding if an autonomous vehicle should be handed off from one worker to another worker. The methods allow for decisions to be made in real or near real time shortly before an autonomous vehicle changes location. Worker time, if a handover is not implemented, is considered including the amount of worker time involved with the worker moving with the autonomous vehicle to the new location as compared to a new worker meeting the autonomous vehicle at the new location or on the way to the new location. Handover decisions can consider worker distribution and/or order priority. Such factors can be used to weight one or more time based cost values with a cost value representation of the cost if a handover is not implemented vs implementing a handover being compared to make the handover decision.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: 6 RIVER SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Christopher Cacioppo, Corey Simons
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Patent number: 11560153Abstract: Systems for collision avoidance by an autonomous vehicle include a navigational controller adapted to (i) control a driving path of the autonomous vehicle, (ii) process sensor signals from a first sensor system, and (iii) determine whether an object is present in the driving path of the autonomous vehicle based on the sensor signals from the first sensor system. The systems can also include a processor, operationally independent from the navigational controller, adapted to (a) process sensor signals from a second sensor system and (b) determine whether an object is present in the driving path of the autonomous vehicle based on the sensor signals from the second sensor system.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: 6 River Systems, LLCInventors: Daryl van Kampen, Christopher Cacioppo, Callum Gow, Evan Hovaniak, Nicholas Nopadon Tantisujjatham
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Publication number: 20230008183Abstract: Autonomous vehicles including ladders and related methods are disclosed. An example system includes an autonomous vehicle including an integrated ladder and a processor to detect a state of the ladder as being in one of a stowed state, a deployed state, or a use state; in response to detecting that the ladder is in the stowed state, cause the autonomous vehicle to operate in a first drive mode and a second drive mode; in response to detecting that the ladder is in the deployed state, cause the autonomous vehicle to operate in the second drive mode and to restrict from operating in the first drive mode; and in response to detecting that the ladder is in the use state, cause the autonomous vehicle to refrain from operating in the first drive mode and the second drive mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2021Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Matthew Fitzgerald, Michael Caine, Christopher Cacioppo
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Patent number: 11551183Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for managing exceptions to orders collected by autonomous vehicles. The exemplary systems may be configured to receive an indication of an exception that at least one item for an order cannot be collected with a first autonomous vehicle carrying a container associated with the order and determine a reconfigured path for the first vehicle responsive to receiving the indication of the exception. The reconfigured path may include a stop at a storage location configured to store containers associated with the exception. The systems may be configured to receive an indication that the container was removed from the first vehicle and deposited at the storage location, transmit an instruction to a second autonomous vehicle to collect the at least one item for the order, and receive an indication that the at least one item has been matched with the container deposited at the storage location.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: 6 River Systems, LLCInventors: Christopher Cacioppo, Alexa Mellon, Matthew Graham, Jeffrey Kreis, Christopher Payne, Timothy Deignan
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Publication number: 20230004156Abstract: Methods and apparatus for making autonomous vehicle handover decisions are described. A handover decision involves deciding if an autonomous vehicle should be handed off from one worker to another worker. The methods allow for decisions to be made in real or near real time shortly before an autonomous vehicle changes location. Worker time, if a handover is not implemented, is considered including the amount of worker time involved with the worker moving with the autonomous vehicle to the new location as compared to a new worker meeting the autonomous vehicle at the new location or on the way to the new location. Handover decisions can consider worker distribution and/or order priority. Such factors can be used to weight one or more time based cost values with a cost value representation of the cost if a handover is not implemented vs implementing a handover being compared to make the handover decision.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2020Publication date: January 5, 2023Applicant: 6 RIVER SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Christopher Cacioppo, Corey Simons
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Publication number: 20220374893Abstract: The invention discloses a method and system for exchanging data between users using a transaction phrase, comprising: composing a data package by a source, uploading the data package onto a server, receiving a transaction phrase associated solely with the data package generated from a dictionary database utilized by the server, communicating the transaction phrase by the source to a recipient, requesting the data package by the recipient using the phrase, and receiving the data package from the server to the recipient if the parameters allow. The invention also details a financial aspect wherein a payment dialogue is initiated on the recipient interface allowing the recipient to complete a payment through a merchant server. Another embodiment comprises receiving a payment by the recipient upon submitting the transaction phrase to the server. The invention also envisions allowing the source to create a source account before composing the data package.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: RARE CorporationInventors: Christopher Rothfuss, Christopher Cacioppo
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Publication number: 20220179416Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for dynamically repositioning inventory items in a space. The exemplary systems may be configured to receive a signal indicating a change in demand for a product, in which a plurality of items of the product are positioned at a first location within the space. The systems may be configured to determine a second location within the space for positioning at least some items such that a collection time is reduced. The systems may be further configured to generate a route for an autonomous vehicle that includes the first and second locations, as well as a third location where an item for an order is positioned. The systems may then trigger navigation of the autonomous vehicle, based on the route, to reposition the items from the first location to the second location and to collect the item for the order.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventor: Christopher Cacioppo
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Patent number: 11345546Abstract: Methods and apparatus for efficiently fulfilling product orders corresponding are described. Order items are divided into those which are to be automatically picked using an automated pick cell including a loader, such as a robotic arm, storage buffers and an apparatus for transferring the automatically picked items onto a robotic cart. The manually picked items are picked by a human picker guided by the robotic cart. The manual pick can occur before or after the automatic pick of items. In some embodiments whether items are to be automatically picked before or after the manual pick portion of an order depends on which ordering will allow for packing of the items corresponding to an order into the least number of receptacles, e.g., totes which are transported by the robotic pick carts.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: 6 RIVER SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Christopher Cacioppo, Tim Higgins, Tucker Kelman Moffat, Joshua Chaitin-Pollak, Charles Christopher Lingamfelter
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Publication number: 20220155781Abstract: Methods and apparatus for making autonomous vehicle handover decisions are described. A handover decision involves deciding if an autonomous vehicle should be handed off from one worker to another worker. The methods allow for decisions to be made in real or near real time shortly before an autonomous vehicle changes location. Worker time, if a handover is not implemented, is considered including the amount of worker time involved with the worker moving with the autonomous vehicle to the new location as compared to a new worker meeting the autonomous vehicle at the new location or on the way to the new location. Handover decisions can consider worker distribution and/or order priority. Such factors can be used to weight one or more time based cost values with a cost value representation of the cost if a handover is not implemented vs implementing a handover being compared to make the handover decision.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventor: Christopher Cacioppo
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Publication number: 20220092541Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for managing exceptions to orders collected by autonomous vehicles. The exemplary systems may be configured to receive an indication of an exception that at least one item for an order cannot be collected with a first autonomous vehicle carrying a container associated with the order and determine a reconfigured path for the first vehicle responsive to receiving the indication of the exception. The reconfigured path may include a stop at a storage location configured to store containers associated with the exception. The systems may be configured to receive an indication that the container was removed from the first vehicle and deposited at the storage location, transmit an instruction to a second autonomous vehicle to collect the at least one item for the order, and receive an indication that the at least one item has been matched with the container deposited at the storage location.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2020Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Christopher Cacioppo, Alexa Mellon, Matthew Graham, Jeffrey Kreis, Christopher Payne, Timothy Deignan
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Patent number: 11276026Abstract: Methods and apparatus for efficiently fulfilling product orders corresponding to different customers are described. An order processing system receives product orders from customers and efficiently groups multiple orders into sets of orders. A set of orders is assigned to a mobile sort wall, and a group of robotic carts is assigned to be used to collect products. The products corresponding to a set of orders are picked from racks and collected in the robotic carts. The mobile sort wall includes a plurality of different placement locations, e.g. bins. Each placement location is associated with one of the customer orders in the set of customer orders assigned to the mobile sort wall. A sorting kiosk including a scanner identifies a collected product, identifies a placement location, and the product is placed on the mobile sort wall. A loaded mobile sort wall is moved to a packaging area.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: 6 River Systems, Inc.Inventors: Jerome Dubois, Christopher Cacioppo, Tim Higgins, Tucker Kelman Moffat, Paul Forster Lyon, Alexander Thieme, Ellen Gilfillan Hawkes
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Publication number: 20210061566Abstract: Methods and apparatus for efficiently fulfilling product orders corresponding are described. Order items are divided into those which are to be automatically picked using an automated pick cell including a loader, such as a robotic arm, storage buffers and an apparatus for transferring the automatically picked items onto a robotic cart. The manually picked items are picked by a human picker guided by the robotic cart. The manual pick can occur before or after the automatic pick of items. In some embodiments whether items are to be automatically picked before or after the manual pick portion of an order depends on which ordering will allow for packing of the items corresponding to an order into the least number of receptacles, e.g., totes which are transported by the robotic pick carts.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Christopher Cacioppo, Tim Higgins, Tucker Kelman Moffat, Joshua Chaitin-Pollak, Charles Christopher Lingamfelter
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Publication number: 20200407164Abstract: A warehouse automation system adapted to improve warehouse operating productivity includes a plurality of carts for transporting products within a warehouse and a controller. The controller is adapted to associate a first one of the plurality of carts with a first person and to control the first cart to lead the first person around the warehouse. According to one advantage, the time the first person spends restocking, picking, counting, sorting, moving, and packing product into customer orders and shipments, for example, is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Rylan Hamilton, Jerome Dubois, Christopher Cacioppo, Timothy Higgins
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Patent number: 10807800Abstract: A warehouse automation system adapted to improve warehouse operating productivity includes a plurality of carts for transporting products within a warehouse and a controller. The controller is adapted to associate a first one of the plurality of carts with a first person and to control the first cart to lead the first person around the warehouse. According to one advantage, the time the first person spends restocking, picking, counting, sorting, moving, and packing product into customer orders and shipments, for example, is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: 6 River Systems, LLCInventors: Rylan Hamilton, Jerome Dubois, Christopher Cacioppo, Timothy Higgins
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Patent number: D908152Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: 6 River Systems, LLCInventors: Christopher Cacioppo, Jerome Dubois, Louis Genatossio, Rylan Hamilton, Tim Higgins, Hector Padilla
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Patent number: D908153Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: 6 River Systems, LLCInventors: Christopher Cacioppo, Jerome Dubois, Louis Genatossio, Rylan Hamilton, Tim Higgins, Hector Padilla