Patent ID: 9430788
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: B25J,G06Q,G07F,Y10S

Claim Text:
1. A robotic inventory dispensing system, comprising: an inventory storage area including a storage unit, the storage unit adapted to store respective product items for a plurality of products among a plurality of storage locations along a height and width of the inventory storage area; a product delivery area including a dispensing location, the dispensing location adapted to receive and dispense the respective product items for the plurality of products; a robotics unit operable to stock the respective product items within the storage unit, the robotics unit further operable to retrieve a requested product item from the storage unit and deliver the requested product item to the dispensing location, wherein the requested product item is associated with a identifier of a requested product of the plurality of products; and a robotic control system to control the robotics unit, the robotic control system including: wherein the robotic control system operates to stock the storage unit independently of a planogram, wherein the plurality of products are automatically stocked by the robotics unit throughout the plurality of storage locations in the storage unit to mix stocking locations of different products associated with different product identifiers, and wherein the tracking system is further configured to track the mixed stocking locations of the different products associated with the different product identifiers within the storage unit; and wherein the robotic control system operates to select the requested product item with the command system through use of the identifier of the requested product, wherein the selection of the requested product causes a lookup of a stocking location of the requested product item within the storage unit and a communication of the stocking location to the robotics unit to retrieve the requested product item from the storage unit, the stocking location of the requested product item chosen from among respective stocking locations associated with the identifier of the requested product.