US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 5 for "Systems and methods for a high throughput sortation system" (Tennessee, Nebraska, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,613, issued on May 5, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for a high throughput sortation system" was invented by Michael Alan Bray (Elkhorn, Neb.), Ganesh Krishnamoorthy (Seattle), Vivek S. Narayanan (Franklin, Tenn.) and Max Alfonso Bruccoleri (Lake Forest Park, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for a shuttle track system for efficiently sorting items and packages by increasing a throughput of shuttles loaded with items. To increase item shuttle throughput, a shuttle track designated for shuttles that transport items (e.g., item track) may be positioned between...