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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2016
Applicant:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Inventor:
Allan Scott Bathurst, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G06Q 10/08 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/10366 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed are various embodiments for implicitly confirming movement of an item in a materials handling facility. In one embodiment, a radio-frequency identifier (RFID) having an antenna directed at a plurality of storage locations is activated. Each of the storage locations has a corresponding RFID. A particular storage location of the plurality of storage location is determined based at least in part on an observed signal change of one of the corresponding RFIDs. An action is then initiated based at least in part on whether the particular storage location is an expected storage location.