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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. 30, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2015
Applicant:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Eric C. Young, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Sriram M. Krishnan, Sammamish, WA (US);
Assignee:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); B65G 1/137 (2006.01); G05B 15/02 (2006.01); B07C 3/14 (2006.01); G06Q 10/08 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 1/137 (2013.01); B07C 3/14 (2013.01); G05B 15/02 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure involves the receipt of inventory items in a materials handling facility. In one embodiment, a listing of inventory items associated with an inventory is maintained in a memory accessible to a computing device. An attempt is made to identify a match between a first image of a receivable item and a second image of one of the inventory items. If a match is successfully identified, an identifier associated with the one of the inventory items is rendered, where the identifier is to be associated with the receivable item.