US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Wearable sensing devices for robots" (Washington, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,963, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Wearable sensing devices for robots" was invented by Timothy G. Dietz (Reading, Mass.), John D. Pacheco (Merrimack, N.H.) and William Eugene Clem (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a wearable device removably coupled to a host robot. The wearable device may include various sensors, output components, computing hardware, a power source, and/or communication hardware to enable the wearable device to assist the host robot in performing tasks, identifying items or tasks, determining location information, and/or performing or assisting in other ...