ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,149, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Automated mobile sortation and delivery systems and methods" was invented by Tye Brady (Southborough, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated mobile sortation and delivery systems may include a track or rail system positioned within a cargo area of a vehicle, a plurality of carrier robots that move along the track system, and a plurality of package or item racks that are engaged and moved by the carrier robots. The carrier robots may load and unload package racks relative to the cargo area, may sort or shuffle the package racks among a plurality of po...