US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Visual perception and techniques for placing inventory into pods with a robotic workcell" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,587, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Visual perception and techniques for placing inventory into pods with a robotic workcell" was invented by Parker Owan (Lake Stevens, Wash.), Sisir Babu Karumanchi (Seattle), Kristina Lisa Klinkner (Vashon, Wash.), Xin Wang (Issaquah, Wash.), Baoyuan Liu (Bellevue, Wash.), Joshua Rosenberg Hooks (Seattle), Rahul Balakrishna Warrier (Kirkland, Wash.), Andres Camilo Cortes (Seattle), Siyu Dai (Seattle), Aaron Joseph Parness (Mercer Island, Wash.), James Schmidt (Seattle) and Andrew Stubbs (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems for performi...