US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 29 for "Deadline-aware multi-agent tour planning" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,771, issued on July 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Deadline-aware multi-agent tour planning" was invented by Vikas Shivashankar (Andover, Mass.), Michael Andrew Caldara (Medford, Mass.), Joseph Durham (Arlington, Mass.) and Taoan Huang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are described for implementing a tour generation feature for completing tasks within a facility of an inventory management system. Coordinates for stations, starting locations of inventory holders, and rest locations of the inventory holders of the facility may be obtained. A set of tasks may be determined for each statio...