ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,024, issued on July 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Multi-check in-line container inspection system" was invented by Vishnuvardhan Pasumarthi (Auburn, Wash.), Anderson Rafael Ospino Calvo (Renton, Wash.), Ahmet Goktug Dazkir (Sammamish, Wash.), Carter Lee Brown (Rio Rancho, N.M.), Ryan Harrison Pastor (South Haven, Mich.) and Mitchell J Kepic (Vermilion, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for a multi-check in-line container inspection system are provided herein. In an example, a computer system determines, during movement of a container in a scanning tunnel, first sensor data generated by a first ...