US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Robot assisted direct-to-pack sortation systems" (Massachusetts, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,626, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Robot assisted direct-to-pack sortation systems" was invented by Mainak Sengupta (Natick, Mass.) and CJ Sturges (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for robot assisted direct-to-pack sortation. In one embodiment, an example autonomous robot may include one or more forks, and a controller configured to determine that a first container is empty, transport the first container to a pick docking station, retrieve a second container from an induct station, wherein the second container is full,...