US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on June 17 for "Determining inventory changes at an inventory location" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,491, issued on June 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Determining inventory changes at an inventory location" was invented by Xiaofeng Ren (Yarrow Point, Wash.), Avishkar Misra (Redmond, Wash.), Ohil Krishnamurthy Manyam (Bothell, Wash.), Liefeng Bo (Seattle), Sudarshan Narasimha Raghavan (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Christopher Robert Towers (Seattle), Gopi Prashanth Gopal (Redmond, Wash.) and Yasser Baseer Asmi (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a system for counting stacked items using image analysis. In one implementation, an image of an inventory location with stacked items is obtained and...