ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,320, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).
"Smart conveyor belt service" was invented by Andrew W. Herson (Berkeley, Calif.), Maryam Seraj (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shaikh Nazrul Islam (Santa Clara, Calif.) and John Sotiriadis (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart conveyor belt web service is provided. A network device generates recipes for multiple orders. Each recipe provides sorting instructions for a conveyor system. The network device transfers an identifier for a first recipe to a queue of active recipes and sends the first recipe to a server device for the c...