US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on June 17 for "Container fullness tracking method and systems" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,216, issued on June 17, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Container fullness tracking method and systems" was invented by Justin F. Barish (Kings Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: generating a three-dimensional grid of cells representing respective portions of an interior of a container, each cell having a status indicator defining an occupancy state of the corresponding portion of the container interior; during loading of the container: maintaining, for each of the cells, a current status indicator, controlling a depth sensor to capture a sequence of point clouds, each point c...