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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2023

Filed:

Mar. 18, 2021
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Rajeev Dwivedi, Sammamish, WA (US);

Mohit Malik, Seattle, WA (US);

Vivek S. Narayanan, Sammamish, WA (US);

Shahid Azad, Seattle, WA (US);

Ganesh Krishnamoorthy, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 47/68 (2006.01); B65G 15/22 (2006.01); B65G 43/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 47/682 (2013.01); B65G 15/22 (2013.01); B65G 43/08 (2013.01); B65G 2203/0233 (2013.01); B65G 2203/041 (2013.01); B65G 2203/044 (2013.01);
Abstract

Item singulation systems and methods may include an input conveyor, a vision system, and an output conveyor that receives items from the input conveyor. The vision system may determine individual columns of items from among a plurality of items on the input conveyor. Operations of the input conveyor and output conveyor may be controlled substantially as a pull system to transfer individual columns of items to the output conveyor, such that singulated items can be transferred by the output conveyor to downstream processes.


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