US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Robotic retrieval for dense storage" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,262, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Robotic retrieval for dense storage" was invented by Alexandre Ormiga Galvao Barbosa (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, systems and methods for robotic retrieval are described. A storage block including a grid of a plurality of storage pods in a robot-controlled storage field may be determined. Each storage pod of the plurality of storage pods may include a plurality of items. The grid may include a plurality of cells, where each cell represents a position within the grid occupiable by a storage pod. A first storage pod loc...