US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 1 for "Robot movement controls based on identifier encoding signals" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,298, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Robot movement controls based on identifier encoding signals" was invented by Seth R Kaufman (Arlington, Mass.), Erik Edward Steltz (Melrose, Mass.), Renen Bassik (Lexington, Mass.), Gabriel Hebert (Wakefield, Mass.) and Eric Jones (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for controlling robot movement based on identifier encoding signals are described herein. For example, a device can determine a safety state of a physical location indicating a permission to transmit signals. The safety state can be associated with an operation that can ...