Patent ID: 11865586
Assignee: SIEMENS LOGISTICS GMBH
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A method of sorting pieces of luggage, the method comprising:
generating for each piece of luggage an information set including a machine-readable code and human-readable code, and storing the information set as a dataset in a database;
providing each piece of luggage with an identification element carrying the information set with the machine-readable code and human-readable code;
during a sorting process, automatically acquiring and automatically recognizing at least part of the information set in the identification element by acquiring the machine-readable code and, if the machine readable code is not recognizable, automatically acquiring the human-readable code from the identification element;
performing a check to thereby automatically verify whether the part of the information set that has been recognized matches at least one dataset that is stored in the database; and
sorting the respective piece of luggage according to information gleaned from the dataset that is stored in the database.