US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on April 21 for "Automated reorientation of sortation shuttles" (Washington, Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,385, issued on April 21, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Automated reorientation of sortation shuttles" was invented by Michael Alan Bray (Elkhorn, Neb.), Ganesh Krishnamoorthy (Seattle) and Daniel Lais (Mill Creek, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for automated reorientation of sortation shuttles. An example system for automated shuttle reorientation may include a track having a first portion, a second portion, and a rotatable portion that a first end and a second end, where the rotatable portion is configured to rotate from a first position to a second position, and where ...