Patent ID: 11969760
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 13:
14. A defect detection system, comprising:
a plurality of sensors configured to capture a plurality of item information associated with an item being transported via a conveyance from an automated item singulation system to an automated item sortation system;
a trained machine learning model executing on a computing resource configured to, at least:
obtain the plurality of item information; and
process the plurality of item information to determine a quality defect and a quality defect type associated with the item; and

a control system in communication with the quality defect detection system and the automated item sortation system, the control system being configured to, at least, instruct, based at least in part on the determination of the quality defect and the quality defect type associated with the item, the automated item sortation system to sort the item into a container designated for items with quality defects of the quality defect type.