US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Inventory system with item retrieval" (Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,602, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Inventory system with item retrieval" was invented by Thomas Van de Velde (Redmond, Wash.), Praveen Kumar Peddi (Westford, Mass.), Nicholas Mark Johnson (Westford, Mass.), Yashoda Dadkar (Andover, Mass.), Wendy Palto (Medford, Mass.) and Lisa Anne Swanson (Snohomish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handler for use in an inventory handling system can include a frame with at least one upright defining a first lateral side opposite a second lateral side. A plurality of staging shelves can be arranged above one another and supported along the first latera...