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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2016
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Gregory Karl Lisso, Bellevue, WA (US);
Steven Klehr, Maple Valley, WA (US);
Sean Maylone, Seattle, WA (US);
Vignesh Kumar Sivasamy, Bellevue, WA (US);
Samuel Christopher Uhlman, Kirkland, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are various embodiments for robotic item sortation and optimization along the vertical axis in a conveyor-based system. A robotic system may be mounted above or adjacent to a conveyor system that moves items along a conveyor belt or similar device. Once an item is laterally diverted from the conveyor system, the robotic system may collect the item at a respective holding station and move the item along a vertical axis for placement in one of a plurality of vertically-configured item handling devices.