Shelf with integrated electronics
Utility Patent Grant (B1)
September 4, 2018
Source: USPTO via Sqoop
Assignees: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventors: Benjamin Jozef Gyori, Ismael Medrano, Alexander Michael Frenkel, Punit Narendra Java
Inventory locations such as shelves in a materials handling facility may be used to store items of various shapes and sizes. Described is an inventory location that houses onboard electronics such as sensors to acquire sensor data and computing devices to process the sensor data. The sensors may include one or more weight sensors, position encoders for auto-facing units, and so forth. The inventory location includes features to protect the onboard electronics and facilitate physical reconfiguration to support products of different shapes and sizes.