US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on April 7 for "Predictive material handling equipment jam prevention" (Washington, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,135, issued on April 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Predictive material handling equipment jam prevention" was invented by Jesse Edward Rochelle (Federal Way, Wash.), Farouq Halawa (Seattle), Raashid Mohammed (Lynnwood, Wash.), Chelsea Marie Beroske (Littleton, Colo.) and Terrick Willoughby (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for predicting and preventing jams in material handling equipment are described. In an example, a device includes a camera that can generate a video including image frames showing a material handling equipment. The device also includes a computer system that can generate a...