US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 2 for "Monocular depth prediction and occupancy correction systems and methods for item stow processes" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,227, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Monocular depth prediction and occupancy correction systems and methods for item stow processes" was invented by Siyu Dai (Lynnwood, Wash.), Shantanu Thakar (Mountain View, Calif.), Ariel Gordon (Seattle), Sisir Babu Karumanchi (Seattle), Walter Gottlieb Bircher (Seattle), Bhavana Mysore Chandrashekhar (Brier, Wash.), Ruinian Xu (Seattle) and Garrett Memoli (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Monocular depth prediction machine learning models may be trained to receive imaging data of inventory holders having translucent bands that at least partially occl...