US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Method and system for moving containers" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,043, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Method and system for moving containers" was invented by William Scott Kalm (Seattle), Seshachalamgupta Motamarri (Sammamish, Wash.), Tait Stephen Carroll (Spokane, Wash.), Vincent Kerstholt (Harderwijk, Netherlands), Ruben Boerhof (Harderwijk, Netherlands), Jasper Schaapman (Harderwijk, Netherlands) and Henk Roeberts (Harderwijk, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container transport can move containers around a warehouse environment. The container transport can include a container receiving area with multiple container bays. Containers can be r...