US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Capacitive mat for detecting placement or removal of items" (Illinois, Washington, Virginia, Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,420, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Capacitive mat for detecting placement or removal of items" was invented by Rachid M. Alameh (Crystal Lake, Ill.), Jiri Slaby (Seattle), Gregory Donald Hager (Springfield, Va.), Thomas Keenan (Seattle), Jonathan Guy (Austin, Texas), Nir Charny (North Grafton, Mass.), Nathan P. O'Neill (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Frederick Hershel Savage (Austin, Texas), Amelia Capilongo (Leesburg, Va.), Alexander Eugene Choi (Seattle), David Bryan Michelman (Seattle) and Jonathan Alan Jenkins (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitive mat includes a first...