US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 2 for "Systems and methods for automating a delivery station" (Washington, Kentucky, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,219, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for automating a delivery station" was invented by FNU Shashank Kumar (Bellevue, Wash.), Shivani Saklani (Issaquah, Wash.), Vishal Dipak Nathu (Franklin, Ky.) and Jeffrey Ken Smith (Fallatin, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for automating a delivery station including a launch pad area in which delivery vehicles are loaded with packages for delivery and a queuing area in which additional vehicles wait to proceed to the launch pad area. Input devices, such as cameras, may be provided in the launch pad a...