US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 27 for "Robotic purchase order fulfillment system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,174, issued on May 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Robotic purchase order fulfillment system" was invented by Jane Shi (Tewksbury, Mass.) and Fan Wang (Woburn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system assigns items in a received purchase order to containers and coordinates movement of a first set of robots holding the containers and movement of a second set of robots holding the items to a set of stations that include robotic arms. The computing system also uses the robotic arms to place the items into the containers."

The patent was filed on Nov. 16, 2021, under Application No. 17/527,940.

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