ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,311, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Item consolidator" was invented by Emanuel Moshouris (Seattle), Ennio Claretti (Seattle), Emily Dunne (Arvada, Colo.), Andrew Stubbs (Seattle), Don Frank Ruffatto (Renton, Wash.), Rachel Lynn Muhlbauer (Seattle), Nikhil Bole (Seattle) and Mike Hector (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Item consolidation tools are described. In one example, an item consolidator includes first and second bay doors, a door displacement system, and a controller. The door displacement system includes first and second drive systems secured to the undersides of the first and...