US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 30 for "End of arm tools having conveyance surfaces" (California, Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,298, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"End of arm tools having conveyance surfaces" was invented by Christine Leonore Fuller (Mountain View, Calif.), Curt Salisbury (Seattle), Benjamin Bedard (Revere, Mass.) and Matthew Aaron Frost (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for end of arm tools having conveyance surfaces and related item manipulation devices. In one embodiment, an example item manipulation device may include a first conveyor assembly having a first conveyance surface configured to actuate in a first direction, a se...