Patent ID: 11884495
Assignee: BERKSHIRE GREY OPERATING COMPANY, INC.
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 17:
18. A method of processing non-ordered objects in a trailer of a tractor trailer, comprising:
moving an engagement structure into the trailer, the engaging structure including an engagement surface that extends substantially along a full inner width of the trailer;
engaging unidentified objects with the engagement surface of the engagement structure, said objects being engaged indiscriminately such that no order of engagement of the objects is selected;
conveying the objects in an indiscriminate sequence out of the trailer;
transporting the indiscriminate sequence of objects from the trailer to a distribution location within a further tractor trailer;
singulating the indiscriminate sequence of objects into singulated objects;
dropping the singulated objects through a drop scanner that provides object perception data regarding each object that falls as the object falls through the drop scanner; and
routing each object in any of a plurality of routing paths to any of a plurality of access locations in the further tractor trailer responsive to the object perception data associated with each object.