ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,074, issued on July 28, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for creating walkways in heavy machinery and equipment" was invented by Ganesh Krishnamoorthy (Seattle), Michael Alan Bray (Elkhorn, Neb.) and Vivek S. Narayanan (Franklin, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for creating walkways in heavy machinery and equipment. In one embodiment, an example system may include a first module, a second module coupled to the first module, where the second module comprises a first track and a second track, a third module coupled to the first module and the s...