US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 23 for "Container closure systems and methods having associated state identifiers" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,712, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Container closure systems and methods having associated state identifiers" was invented by Adam Joseph Greenbaum (Boston) and Stephen Charles Paschall (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Container closure systems may include various types of latches to secure doors. The latches may present one or more state identifiers, such as open state identifiers and closed state identifiers. Different state identifiers may be presented and scannable based on a state of the door and latch. For example, an open state identifier may be presented and scannable ...