ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,253, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Item based path development" was invented by Alexander Michael McNamara (Seattle), Kirk Arlo Petersen (Seattle), Nathan Lee Wesling (Seattle), Jack Bradley Jones (Seattle) and Sridhar Boyapati (Sammamish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a system and method for developing and dynamically updating user paths through a materials handling facility. A user path through a materials handling facility may be developed that will route a user past one or more items (e.g., pick list items, recommended items, wish list items, promotional items) planned...