ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,648, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Systems and methods for payload shuttles for efficiently loading and unloading containers" was invented by Filippo Navarria (Milan), Kunal Chheda (New York) and Domenico De Giglio (Bari, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for multi-level storage systems to facilitate movement of shuttles across a multi-level storage structure for retrieving, loading, unloading, and moving packages. The multi-level storage system may include the multi-level storage structure for storing packages, which may be place...