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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2019
Applicant:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
William Scott Kalm, Seattle, WA (US);
Kushal Patel, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 43/46 (2006.01); B65B 43/44 (2006.01); B65B 43/28 (2006.01); B65B 43/36 (2006.01); B65B 51/14 (2006.01); B65B 43/18 (2006.01); B65B 43/30 (2006.01); B65B 5/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 43/465 (2013.01); B65B 5/067 (2013.01); B65B 43/18 (2013.01); B65B 43/28 (2013.01); B65B 43/30 (2013.01); B65B 43/36 (2013.01); B65B 43/44 (2013.01); B65B 51/146 (2013.01);
Abstract
An item packaging system can position and prepare a package for receiving one or more items. The package can be received by the system in a storage orientation and stored in a storage container. A picking assembly can be positioned above the storage container in a picking orientation and pick and rotate the package to a loading orientation. A gripper can grip the package in the loading orientation and transport the package to a loading station for loading the one or more items into the interior of the shipping receptacle.