US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Autonomous robotic pack planning systems and methods for item stability and integrity" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,994, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Autonomous robotic pack planning systems and methods for item stability and integrity" was invented by Fan Wang (Woburn, Mass.) and Jane Shi (Tewksbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous robotic pack planning systems and methods may include an item identification subsystem, a pack planning subsystem, and a robotic packing subsystem. Based on identified items to be packed, the pack planning subsystem may generate a pack plan with placement poses for items that satisfy various constraints, including containment constraints, stability constraints,...