US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 28 for "Modular storage systems" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,150, issued on July 28, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Modular storage systems" was invented by Matthew Ray DesJardien (Kenmore, Wash.), Chelsea Olson (Auburn, Wash.), Robert M. Riggs (Winthrop, Wash.), Dan Beltzer (Issaquah, Wash.), Paul Eugene Munger (Seattle), Aaron M. McDaniel (Seattle), Andrew James Pierce (Renton, Wash.), Michael Mosman (Everett, Wash.) and Nathan Pius O'Neill (Snohomish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Modular storage systems include load sensors disposed beneath or in association with platforms. The load sensors are pulse-sampled for signals corresponding to loads at time intervals,...