ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,997, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Receptacle-expanding apparatus for sortation wall" was invented by Samuel Olukayode Babarinsa (Seattle), Aishwarya Srinivasan (Seattle), Rehan Irfan (Seattle), James Mendoza (Kent, Wash.), Scott D King (Sammamish, Wash.) and William G Bowes (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A loading apparatus may include a chute passageway, a gate, and a splitter. The chute passageway may include a chute surface positioned extending along at least a portion of a distance between an inlet opening of the chute and an outlet opening of the chute passageway. The gat...