ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,230, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Attribute-based fulfillment operations" was invented by Roland J. Menassa (Macomb, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Attribute-based fulfillment operations may comprise various stations and processes between inbound receive and outbound transfer that may decant, count, sort, pick, pack, and ship items based on various attributes. In order to enable such operations, accurate and reliable item counts within the system are generated and maintained at least partially automatically based on item weights. In addition, ordered or outbound items may be initiall...