ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,865, issued on April 29.
"Method for designing special function robots" was invented by Harry Fox (Jerusalem), Sergh Sapojnikov (Ashkelon, Israel) and Andrew C. Gorelick (Ashkelon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for designing a robot for performing a specified function includes a library, a robot design server, and a robot data server. The library stores data about modules and accessories for a robot and has at least unique IDs, dimensions, and firmware for operation of each module and accessory. The robot design server receives a set of functions and requirements of the new robot, finds a set of modules or accessories...