Patent ID: 11868947
Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A method of delivering products along a conveyor assembly comprising:
providing a conveyor assembly comprising a plurality of sortation modules and configured to move products to a predetermined plurality of sortation destination areas;
by a control circuit, determining a destination area for a product from the predetermined plurality of sortation destination areas;
propelling the product along the plurality of sortation modules;
communicating with a sortation module corresponding to the determined destination area;
by the control circuit, diverting the product to the determined destination area; and
by the control circuit, reconfiguring the predetermined plurality of sortation destination areas to match positions of the sortation modules when one sortation module is interchanged or replaced with another sortation module.