US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 21 for "Automated unloading system for package stacks" (Tennessee, Washington, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,575, issued on July 21, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Automated unloading system for package stacks" was invented by Rajeev Dwivedi (Sammamish, Wash.), Ameya Abhyankar (Franklin, Tenn.) and Thomas Lee Dahlberg (Mobile, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated unloading systems and methods may include a preparation subsystem and a transfer subsystem. A package stack may be loaded into the preparation subsystem to open or enable access to individual packages of the stack, and the opened stack may be rotated to an unloading position. Then, conveyance mechanisms of the transfer subsystem may cause automated un...