US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Automated unloading of packages from trailers" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,454, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Automated unloading of packages from trailers" was invented by Rajeev Dwivedi (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for automated unloading of packages from trailers. In one embodiment, an example package unloading system may include a suction cup support having a first suction cup assembly and a second suction cup assembly, a moveable frame coupled to the suction cup support, a telescoping conveyor configured to convey packages downstream, an angled conveyor configured to convey the packages to the telescoping co...