ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,695, issued on June 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Guiding robots transporting containers using applied force detection" was invented by Matthew Anthony Brady (Boston), Dincer Bozkaya (Andover, Mass.), Rakesh Mishra (Hudson, Mass.), Jonathan Lee Zerez (Waltham, Mass.), Eric Jones (Somerville, Mass.), Chris John Schuchmann (Rockledge, Fla.) and Stephen Charles Paschall (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for guiding robots transporting containers using applied force detection. In one embodiment, an example mobile robot is configured to transport a container. The mobile...