ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,381, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Dolly with clamping mechanism(s)" was invented by Mark Stiggers (Cincinnati), Shailesh Kumar (Seattle), Anthony Guobin Chan (SeaTac, Wash.) and David Thomas Over (Buckley, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a deck configured to receive a container and a clamping mechanism configured clamp the container to the deck and unclamp the container from the deck. The clamping mechanism has one or more first fingers and one or more second fingers. The one or more first fingers are actuatable between a first position to clamp the container to the de...