US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 11 for "In-vehicle mechanized package retrieval" (Massachusetts, Texas, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,291, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"In-vehicle mechanized package retrieval" was invented by John Lewis Colucci (Austin, Texas), Gabriel Greeley (Hollis, N.H.) and John MacNeill (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cargo area within a delivery vehicle can include a storage area storing items for destinations along a route. A staging area may be accessible from inside and outside of the cargo area. A dispenser within the cargo area may provide item transfer from the storage area and to the staging area. For example, the dispenser may include a carriage for aligning an extendable and r...