US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 14 for "Machine learning image-based estimation of container fullness" (Massachusetts, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,562, issued on July 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Machine learning image-based estimation of container fullness" was invented by Michael Robert Bocamazo (Framingham, Mass.), Siyao Hu (Grafton, Mass.), Yiwei Jiang (Worcester, Mass.), Frank Preiswerk (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Timothy Stallman (Groton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for image-based determination of container fullness. An example method can include a computing system receiving, from an image-capturing device, a first two-dimensional image of a container including a first item. The computing system can determine,...