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OT-2026-000002624

Automated retail store and system

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Material Handling › Conveying Systems
Inventors
CHEUNG CLEMENT CHEK BONG, LAU CHI KONG, LEUNG LOK HEI, TSANG YUET MEI, WONG WAI KAY, WONG WAI KIN, YEUNG CHIU YUEN
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SHOALTER AUTOMATION LTD
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US-12561643-B2, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 24 February 2026
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Abstract

An automated retail store system for providing automated storage of multiple items and scheduled handling of a customer order for said items at a single retail site, including: a store control system adapted to operate under the control of control signals generated based on order information for an order by a customer, said order information including information representing one or more items and a pickup time; a plurality of storage channels for storing different respective items; a retrieval system adapted to operate under the control of said store control system to: retrieve a plurality of said items in said order information from said channels, and place a plurality of said retrieved items into a delivery container; a conveyor system adapted to operate under the control of said store control system to: move said delivery container to either a storage rack or a locker compartment based on said pickup time, and move said delivery container from said storage rack to an available said locker compartment based on said pickup time; and a verification system adapted to operate under the control of said store control system to: verify an identity of said customer or a unique identifier for said order, and allow said customer to access said items in said locker compartment only when said identity or said identifier has been successfully verified.

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OpenTechnical Publication OT-2026-000002624, “Automated retail store and system,” published September 15, 2026 at 19:14:16 UTC, https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000002624.

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