US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 29 for "Sparse agent re-identification" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,313, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Sparse agent re-identification" was invented by Chris Broaddus (Sammamish, Wash.), Nikhil Chacko (Bothell, Wash.), Leonid Pishchulin (Seattle), Robert Crandall (Lake Forest Park, Wash.) and Xiaoqing Ge (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for tracking and re-identification of agents through sparce and disparate event areas (entry, exit, inventory locations, etc.) within a materials handling facility that includes untracked areas. With the disclosed implementations, only certain areas of a materials handling...