Patents by Inventor Justin P. Dillane

Justin P. Dillane 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).

  • Product movement and distribution systems and methods
    Patent number: 10535040
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide systems, apparatuses, and methods to direct the consolidation of products in fulfilling a product order for a retail shopping facility. In some embodiments, a system is configured to identify a shipment order for products to be delivered to a shopping facility and that includes a request for a full pull pallet of a first product and additional products; define the full pull pallet as an enhanced case intended to be treated by an orderfiller worker as less than a full pull pallet; generate a pallet assembly list identifying the enhanced case and the items of a plurality of the additional products; and communicate the pallet assembly list to a user interface unit to be accessible by an orderfiller worker and directing the orderfiller worker to retrieve and cooperate the enhanced case and the additional products as an assembled pallet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew J. Rizkallah, Thomas E. Lazzaro, Justin P. Dillane
  • PRODUCT MOVEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20170286907
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide systems, apparatuses, and methods to direct the consolidation of products in fulfilling a product order for a retail shopping facility. In some embodiments, a system is configured to identify a shipment order for products to be delivered to a shopping facility and that includes a request for a full pull pallet of a first product and additional products; define the full pull pallet as an enhanced case intended to be treated by an orderfiller worker as less than a full pull pallet; generate a pallet assembly list identifying the enhanced case and the items of a plurality of the additional products; and communicate the pallet assembly list to a user interface unit to be accessible by an orderfiller worker and directing the orderfiller worker to retrieve and cooperate the enhanced case and the additional products as an assembled pallet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Andrew J. Rizkallah, Thomas E. Lazzaro, Justin P. Dillane