B07C 2501/0063
Sorting according to a characteristic or feature of the articles or material
Official title: Using robots
B07C2501/0063 (Sorting according to a characteristic or feature of the articles or material) appears on 249 US grants and 322 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B07C- Granted patents
- 249
- Published applications
- 322
- Assignees
- 138
- Inventors
- 589
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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Recent patents
- System and method for materials recovery using a mobile materials recovery facility (MMRF)6 Oct 2026US 12,752,308 B2Wm Intellectual Property Holdings, L.L.C.
- Multi-system single footprint sorter using robots with sort verification15 Sep 2026US 12,734,554 B2Tompkins Robotics, Inc.
- Robot cargo sorting system capable of identifying shelf transfer, and sorting method thereof8 Sep 2026US 12,729,061 B2Zhejiang Libiao Robotics Co., Ltd.
- System and method for facial mask detection and disinfection for reuse8 Sep 2026US 12,731,237 B2Hamad Medical Corporation
- Systems, devices and methods for determining item availability in a shopping space11 Aug 2026US 12,703,614 B2Walmart Apollo, LLC
- Waste sorting system through air direction control17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273584 A1Aetech Corporation
- Parcel and Article Sorting System and Method27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252067 A1Tompkins Robotics, Inc.
- Method for handling at least one target piece good and device for handling at lease one target piece good13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233254 A1
- Unloading and sorting system13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233255 A1Nexobot Pty Ltd
- Optimization of sortation order receptacle filling13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233256 A1Tompkins Robotics, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Parcel and article sorting system and method121US 9,975,148 B2Tompkins International · 2018
- Shopping facility assistance object detection systems, devices and methods81US 9,801,517 B2Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. · 2017
- Shopping space mapping systems, devices and methods65US 9,534,906 B2Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. · 2017
- Singulation of arbitrary mixed items55US 10,906,188 B1Dexterity, Inc. · 2021
- Shopping facility assistance systems, devices and methods49US 10,130,232 B2Walmart Apollo, LLC · 2018