US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Energy limiting device for transferring containers" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,031, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Energy limiting device for transferring containers" was invented by Scott Hogan (Mukilteo, Wash.) and Colburn Davis (Everett, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly includes a conveyance mechanism configured to move in a first direction and a second direction opposite the first direction, and an energy limiting device coupled to the conveyance mechanism. The energy limiting device is configured to move in the first direction with the conveyance mechanism, and move in the second direction as the conveyance mechanism moves in the first direction up...