ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,013, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Automated capacity recommendation engine for shipping networks" was invented by Edward King Armah Amartey-Tagoe (Seattle), Michael Behrman (Roswell, Ga.) and Vibhor Kaushik (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating a capacity recommendation engine are described herein. First information that identifies capacity changes associated with shipping packages from one or more entities may be obtained. Each capacity change may be associated with a reason code that identifies a reason for the capacity change. Second information that id...