ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,822, issued on July 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Package storage space optimization systems and methods using reconfigurable racks" was invented by Rohit Malshe (Kirkland, Wash.), Liron David Yedidsion (Redmond, Wash.), Gah-Yi Ban (London), Kyoung Yoon Kim (Bothell, Wash.) and Sourabh Puri (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Package storage space optimization systems and methods may utilize a combination of fixed racks for standardized packages, fixed racks for non-standardized packages, and reconfigurable racks that can be configured for either standardized packages or non-standardized packages ...