ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,373, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Delivery vehicle with sensors having overlapping field of views" was invented by Dylan Thomas Cox (Shoreline, Wash.), Matthieu Liger (Seattle), Scott Malcolm Waters (Rye, N.H.), Alexander M Frenkel (Seattle), Seth Whittington (Bothell, Wash.) and Nicholas Mendenhall (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery vehicle with sensors having overlapping fields of view is described herein. In an example, a cargo bay is mounted to a chassis. A sensor system is mounted to the cargo bay and includes a plurality of cameras that have a first collective 3...