Patents by Inventor Thomas Eugene Murphy

Thomas Eugene Murphy 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).

  • Patent number: 12632828
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining a pallet build sequence include receiving a pick order request, identifying candidate pick items in a warehouse to fulfill the request, grouping the items based on aisles and generating aisle-based lists per group, and sorting each list based on location of each of the items per group from front to back of the warehouse. For each list, the method includes selecting a first item at a top of the list, adding the first item to a bottom layer of a pallet, determining an amount of weight of items from the list that can be layered on top of the first item and determining whether the first item can support the determined amount of weight. If the first item can support the determined weight, the first item can be kept in a pick sequence as the pallet's bottom layer and removed from the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: Lineage Logistics, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Eugene Murphy, Daniel Thomas Wintz
  • Patent number: 12387172
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for determining a pick area arrangement for a storage facility. A method can include retrieving, by a computer system, historic pallet information for pallet SKUs and pick area information, determining, based on the information, a number of bays to allocate for each pallet SKU, determining, based on the information, a number of dynamic bays to allocate in the pick area, which receive pallet SKUs in high demand during a particular time, determining, based on the information, quantities of aisles to allocate as pick aisles in the pick area by simulating aisle arrangements with pallet SKUs from the historic pallet information and determining average travel times to complete pick orders having the pallet SKUs in the aisle arrangements, selecting the quantity of aisles providing a lowest average travel time, and assigning each pallet SKU from the historic pallet information to bays in the quantity of aisles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Lineage Logistics, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Thomas Wintz, Daniƫl Walet, Jacob Edward Thompson, Elias MacGregor Mills, Natalie Novitzky, Thomas Eugene Murphy
  • Publication number: 20230410046
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining a pallet build sequence include receiving a pick order request, identifying candidate pick items in a warehouse to fulfill the request, grouping the items based on aisles and generating aisle-based lists per group, and sorting each list based on location of each of the items per group from front to back of the warehouse. For each list, the method includes selecting a first item at a top of the list, adding the first item to a bottom layer of a pallet, determining an amount of weight of items from the list that can be layered on top of the first item and determining whether the first item can support the determined amount of weight. If the first item can support the determined weight, the first item can be kept in a pick sequence as the pallet's bottom layer and removed from the list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas Eugene Murphy, Daniel Thomas Wintz
  • Patent number: 11755994
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining a pallet build sequence include receiving a pick order request, identifying candidate pick items in a warehouse to fulfill the request, grouping the items based on aisles and generating aisle-based lists per group, and sorting each list based on location of each of the items per group from front to back of the warehouse. For each list, the method includes selecting a first item at a top of the list, adding the first item to a bottom layer of a pallet, determining an amount of weight of items from the list that can be layered on top of the first item and determining whether the first item can support the determined amount of weight. If the first item can support the determined weight, the first item can be kept in a pick sequence as the pallet's bottom layer and removed from the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Lineage Logistics, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Eugene Murphy, Daniel Thomas Wintz
  • Publication number: 20220383254
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining a pallet build sequence include receiving a pick order request, identifying candidate pick items in a warehouse to fulfill the request, grouping the items based on aisles and generating aisle-based lists per group, and sorting each list based on location of each of the items per group from front to back of the warehouse. For each list, the method includes selecting a first item at a top of the list, adding the first item to a bottom layer of a pallet, determining an amount of weight of items from the list that can be layered on top of the first item and determining whether the first item can support the determined amount of weight. If the first item can support the determined weight, the first item can be kept in a pick sequence as the pallet's bottom layer and removed from the list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Eugene Murphy, Daniel Thomas Wintz