US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 19 for "Systems and methods for calibration of a shuttle sortation system" (Washington, Tennessee, Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,362, issued on May 19, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for calibration of a shuttle sortation system" was invented by Vinodhkumar Somavar Muniappan (Redmond, Wash.), Vivek S Narayanan (Franklin, Tenn.), Dylan Andrew Norris (Redmond, Wash.), Ganesh Krishnamoorthy (Seattle), Michael Alan Bray (Elkhorn, Neb.), Ryan Slaughter (Edmonds, Wash.) and Gurjinder Singh Dhami (Auburn, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for a shuttle sortation system having a calibration shuttle for determining and adjusting shuttle coordinates for depositing items and/or loading totes at...