US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Robotic re-stowing of relocated inventory" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,064, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Robotic re-stowing of relocated inventory" was invented by Yvetta Pols Sandhu (Winchester, Mass.), Julie Mitchell (Lynnfield, Mass.), Yashoda Dadkar (Andover, Mass.), Joseph Durham (Arlington, Mass.) and Michael Andrew DeMalia (South Easton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for robotic re-stowing of relocated inventory are described. In some examples, a determination may be made that a first tote located in a first zone of a processing facility includes a first item bound for a second zone of the processing facility. The first tote ma...