US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Item return for customized retail environments" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,636, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Item return for customized retail environments" was invented by Christopher Mario Gil (Tacoma, Wash.), Edwin Thorne III (Shoreline, Wash.), Sachin Rajendra Kothari (Issaquah, Wash.), Wenbo Cui (Bellevue, Wash.), Pyotr Belov (Bellevue, Wash.) and Nathan P O'Neill (Snohomish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes, in part, systems for enabling a return of an item from an item-identification apparatus without requiring associate intervention. The systems and techniques herein provide for determining, based on first sensor data, that an ...