US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Stereo structured light machine vision system for guidance of automated tote exchange equipment" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,515, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Stereo structured light machine vision system for guidance of automated tote exchange equipment" was invented by Tait Stephen Carroll (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inventory systems may include an inventory holder, a transfer apparatus, and a stereo vision system localized to determine a three dimensional (3D) pose of the inventory holder. The stereo vision system includes a first camera and a first laser disposed at a first end portion of a platform, and a second camera and a second laser disposed at a second end portion of the platform. The first...