US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Wireless powering and control of conveyors on shuttles" (Washington, Nebraska, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,643, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Wireless powering and control of conveyors on shuttles" was invented by Vivek S. Narayanan (Franklin, Tenn.), Ganesh Krishnamoorthy (Seattle), Michael Alan Bray (Elkhorn, Neb.), Rajeev Dwivedi (Sammamish, Wash.), Mohit Malik (Seattle) and Shahid Azad (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for wireless powering and control of conveyors on shuttles. An example system may include a track, and a shuttle configured to move along the track, the shuttle having a conveyor, and a first induction coil. The system may include a seco...