ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,467, issued on June 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Dynamic weighted volume thresholds for inventory totes" was invented by Elvis Kahric (Rome), Kevin Kreutzberger (Dusseldorf, Germany), Ajith Abhindranath (Hannover, Germany), Giulio Presazzi (Sondrio, Italy) and Tulio Vinicius Berbert Patriota (Novara, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include determining that a weighted volume of a first item in an inventory system. The weighted volume can be based on an actual volume and a weight associated with a volume category for the first item. The method may include comparing a weighted average volume...