ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,086, issued on June 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Container unloading systems for various container types" was invented by Jainil Nilesh Desai (Schaumburg, Ill.), Ashwini Kotraiah Davangere (Frisco, Texas), Larissa Del Toro Sanchez (Marietta, Ga.), Andrew Loyd Robinson (Nashville, Tenn.), Kaushal Bharatkumar Mehta (Seattle), Vishnu Priya Ramineni (Slidell, La.) and Dean Christopher Blanchard (Howell, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for unloading containers of various container types. In one embodiment, an example container unloading system may include a container suppo...