US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 7 for "Modular facilities and charging consoles for autonomous ground vehicles" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,570, issued on July 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Modular facilities and charging consoles for autonomous ground vehicles" was invented by Timothy Capota (Kirkland, Wash.), Travis Glover (Seattle), Erich Hacker (Seattle), Jack Mintz Kaplan (Seattle), Khadijah Abdul Latiff (Seattle), Samrin Sing (Sammamish, Wash.) and Jose Martin Villar Duran (Lake Forest Park, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Facilities for accommodating ground vehicles include spaces or enclosures defined by frames, panels and doors mounted to such frames, and charging consoles provided within the spaces or enclosures. Doors may be opera...