US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on April 22 for "Image-based item detection and allocation" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,895, issued on April 22, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Image-based item detection and allocation" was invented by Varadarajan Gopalakrishnan (Cupertino, Calif.), Subram Narasimhan (Saratoga, Calif.), Omar Fawazhashim Zakaria (San Jose, Calif.), Dilip Kumar (Seattle), Sridhar Boyapati (Sammamish, Wash.) and Jin Dong Kim (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes a system for managing inventory as it transitions into a materials handling facility, as it transitions between locations within a materials handling facility and/or as it transitions out of a materials handling facility. ...