Patent ID: 9481516
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: B07C,B65G

Claim Text:
1. A material handling system comprising: a main conveyor; at least one branch conveyor comprising one or more accumulation conveyors that intersect with the main conveyor; a single staging conveyor that receives articles from the at least one branch conveyor; a sortation conveyor that receives the articles from the single staging conveyor and that sorts the articles to more than one divert location a robot, wherein the robot comprises: (i) a robotic arm, and (ii) an end effector, coupled to the robotic arm, wherein the robot is configured to move an article from the main conveyor to the at least one branch conveyor; and a controller in communication with the robot, wherein the controller comprises at least one processor that executes instructions to cause the robot to perform operations comprising: