Patents by Inventor Ryan Stuart Carter

Ryan Stuart Carter has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Exit control mechanism for reducing processing station errors
    Patent number: 10035616
    Abstract: Systems and methods for an exit control mechanism indicating an incomplete packing state near an exit portion of a packing station. A control system determines a pack job and determines a pack plan for the pack job. The control system may send instructions to a pack station directing packing of the pack job in accordance with the pack plan. The control system may receive indications of packing progress, for example, electronic indications from a scanner at the pack station, and update the state of the pack job, such as incomplete or complete. The control system instructs an exit mechanism to change from indicating an incomplete pack state to indicating a completed pack state based on, for example, determinations that the steps of the pack plan have been completed correctly and that the pack job is complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Lamar Hood, Charles Edward Rice, Ryan Stuart Carter, Henry Chi-Chung Yan, Michael Ellsworth Bundy