US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 16 for "Detecting interactions with storage units based on RFID signals and auxiliary signals" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,681, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Detecting interactions with storage units based on RFID signals and auxiliary signals" was invented by Aaron M. McDaniel (Seattle), Nathan P. O'Neill (Snohomish, Wash.), Nirmal Doshi (Bothell, Wash.), Yuxing Tang (Bothell, Wash.) and Robert Jerome Colwill (Bainbridge Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Storage units including platforms that are outfitted with RFID antennas and auxiliary sensors detect changes in loading on the platforms based on changes in loading determined by the auxiliary sensors or changes in signals received by the RFID anten...