US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 2 for "Devices for monitoring inventory within enclosures" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,225, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Devices for monitoring inventory within enclosures" was invented by Jun Ai (Seattle), Rani Awale (Bothell, Wash.), Andre David Brown (Issaquah, Wash.), Kavitha Lingamoorthy (Shoreline, Wash.), Ajay Kumar Ponnuswamy (Seattle), Gopi Prashanth Gopal (Redmond, Wash.), Sudheer Ramoji (Sammamish, Wash.) and Edwin Thorne (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inventory monitoring systems are configured for mounting within enclosures such as refrigerators, cabinets, closets or sets of shelves. The inventory monitoring systems include cameras, illuminators and proce...