US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 3 for "Controlling robotic devices based on proximity detection" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,959, issued on March 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Controlling robotic devices based on proximity detection" was invented by Seth R Kaufman (Arlington, Mass.), Wesley Roy Connell (Melrose, Mass.), Siva Aduri (Stoneham, Mass.), Joshua Zarr (Nashua, N.H.) and Shaun Hayward (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for controlling motion of physical, moving devices within a robotic work cell of an inventory system are disclosed. A user device (e.g., a wearable device) can be used within the workspace to transmit wireless signals. One of these signals can be received by one or more receiving devi...