US Patent Issued to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES on March 4 for "Device with moveable portion including sensors" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,929, issued on March 4, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Device with moveable portion including sensors" was invented by Michael Risley (San Francisco), Michael L. Richards (San Francisco), Dean Zachary Dijour (Morganville, N.J.), Kyle Crouse (Valley Village, Calif.) and Varsha Iyengar (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor head transitions between a retracted and extended state. While retracted, sensors are covered. While extended, the sensors are exposed and may be used to acquire sensor data about the physical space. A force applied by a user, or a received command, may initiate transition. For ...