US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 15 for "Tether usage for robotic package delivery or item handling" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,143, issued on July 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Tether usage for robotic package delivery or item handling" was invented by Vaibhav Desai (Seattle), Alan Baird (Seattle) and Rohit Malshe (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can function relative to an item, a tether, and a robotic manipulator. The tether can correspond to a loop or other structure that can be mountable or mounted in an installed state in which the tether is secured with the item to facilitate lifting the item by lifting of the tether. The robotic manipulator can include a robotic end effector engageable with the tether...