US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 13 for "Optimized task generation and scheduling of automated guided carts using overhead sensor systems" (Italian, Irish, Luxembourger, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,610, issued on May 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Optimized task generation and scheduling of automated guided carts using overhead sensor systems" was invented by Mario Cortese (Pisa, Italy), Enrico Fortunato (Dublin), Ajith Abhindranath (Hannover, Germany), Roberto Biale (Asigliano Vercellese, Italy) and Stefano La Rovere (Bereldange, Luxembourg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to generate and schedule tasks for automated guided carts (AGCs) may include an overhead sensor system, a warehouse management system, an order management system, and a traffic controller. The overhead sensor syste...