Patents by Inventor Roberto Biale

Roberto Biale 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).

  • Optimized task generation and scheduling of automated guided carts using overhead sensor systems
    Patent number: 12299610
    Abstract: Systems and methods to generate and schedule tasks for automated guided carts (AGCs) may include an overhead sensor system, a warehouse management system, an order management system, and a traffic controller. The overhead sensor system may detect trolleys and totes positioned at various trolley locations within a material handling facility. Based on the sensor data and data associated with states of portions of the material handling facility, the order management system may generate logically feasible tasks to transport trolleys and totes within the facility, and may also sequence the tasks in a temporally feasible order. Then, the traffic controller may instruct execution of the sequence of tasks by AGCs to facilitate various material handling processes within the facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mario Cortese, Enrico Fortunato, Ajith Abhindranath, Roberto Biale, Stefano La Rovere
  • OPTIMIZED TASK GENERATION AND SCHEDULING OF AUTOMATED GUIDED CARTS USING OVERHEAD SENSOR SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20230306325
    Abstract: Systems and methods to generate and schedule tasks for automated guided carts (AGCs) may include an overhead sensor system, a warehouse management system, an order management system, and a traffic controller. The overhead sensor system may detect trolleys and totes positioned at various trolley locations within a material handling facility. Based on the sensor data and data associated with states of portions of the material handling facility, the order management system may generate logically feasible tasks to transport trolleys and totes within the facility, and may also sequence the tasks in a temporally feasible order. Then, the traffic controller may instruct execution of the sequence of tasks by AGCs to facilitate various material handling processes within the facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Mario Cortese, Enrico Fortunato, Ajith Abhindranath, Roberto Biale, Stefano La Rovere