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US 2019/0096142 A1Published application
Method and system for marking consignment units
AssigneeDeutsche Post AG
InventorAli Özyigit
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for marking a consignment unit in a logistics process. The invention furthermore relates to a system for marking a consignment unit in a logistics process. The method according to the invention for marking a consignment unit in a logistics process contains the steps of initially creating a first image of the surface of a consignment unit in order to then link this image to an identification number and store the image and the identification number on a data processing unit.
Claims12
A method for marking a consignment unit in a logistics process,
- containing the steps:
- creating a first image of the surface of the consignment unit, wherein the first image characterizes the consignment unit;
- linking the first image with an identification number;
- storing the first image and the identification number on a data processing unit.
1 more element
A system for marking a consignment unit in a logistics process,
- wherein
- the system has an apparatus through which the consignment unit is transportable and which is configured to record a first image of the surface of the consignment unit while the consignment unit is being transported through the apparatus, wherein the structure of the surface of the consignment unit is mappable and the apparatus is furthermore configured to forward the recorded image in the form of a data stream to a data processing unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.