US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 26 for "Contactless direction of sortation shuttles along a track" (Washington, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,957, issued on May 26, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Contactless direction of sortation shuttles along a track" was invented by Michael D. Assadi (Seattle), Sudhakar Teegavarapu (Hopkinton, Mass.), Vivek S. Narayanan (Franklin, Tenn.), Ganesh Krishnamoorthy (Seattle), Michael Alan Bray (Elkhorn, Neb.) and Zechariah Ives (Auburn, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for contactless direction of sortation shuttles along a track. An example system for contactless direction of sortation shuttles may include a track having a linear path, and a curved path that intersects the linear p...