Abstract
A patent application by the inventors AHEARN, Kevin (Nebo, NC, US); ALLEN, Thomas (Reading, MA, US); AMEND, JR., John Richard (Belmont, MA, US); COHEN, Benjamin (Somerville, MA, US); DAWSON-HAGGERTY, Michael (Pittsburgh, PA, US); FORT, William Hartman (Stratham, NH, US); GAUTHIER, Andrew (Somerville, MA, US); GEYER, Christopher (Arlington, MA, US); KING, Jennifer Eileen (Oakmont, PA, US); KOLETSCHKA, Thomas (Cambridge, MA, US); MARONEY, Kyle (North Attleboro, MA, US); MASON, Matthew T. (Pittsburgh, PA, US); MCMAHAN, William Chu-Hyon (Cambridge, MA, US); NASEEF, Samuel (Medford, MA, US); PRICE, Gene Temple (Cambridge, MA, US); ROMANO, Joseph (Arlington, MA, US); SMITH, Daniel (Canonsburg, PA, US); SRINIVASA, Siddhartha (Seattle, WA, US); VELAGAPUDI, Prasanna (Pittsburgh, PA, US); WAGNER, Thomas (Concord, MA, US), filed on October 19, 2023, was made available online on February 15, 2024, according to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx correspondents. This patent application has not been assigned to a company or institution. The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background information supplied by the inventors: “The invention generally relates to automated, robotic and other processing systems, and relates in particular to automated and robotic systems intended for use in environments requiring, for example, that a variety of objects (e.g., articles, parcels or packages) be processed, e.g., sorted and/or otherwise distributed to several output destinations.