US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 17 for "Automated stretch wrapping within closely spaced pallets" (Washington, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,012, issued on March 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Automated stretch wrapping within closely spaced pallets" was invented by Rajeev Dwivedi (Sammamish, Wash.), Raymond Arthur Lund (Miami) and Vaibhav Rameshrao Deshmukh (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inventory management system can include a workspace defining a plurality of loading zones separated by passages and each sized to contain a palletized item stack. A carriage suspended over the workspace may move above the loading zones. An accessory may be coupled with the carriage and extend at least partially downward into the passages. The...