ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,261, issued on July 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Automated package loading systems" was invented by Mainak Sengupta (Medford, Mass.), Talha Hasan (Redmond, Great Britain) and Rahul Banerjee (Andover, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed to automatically load packages into containers. In one embodiment, an example system may include a robotic platform configured to elevate and rotate a container to a predetermined orientation, and a robotic manipulator configured to retrieve a first package from a surface and to position the first package inside the container at a predeterm...