US Patent Issued to Ambi Robotics on Sept. 30 for "System and method for robotic horizontal sortation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,546, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ambi Robotics Inc. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"System and method for robotic horizontal sortation" was invented by David Gealy (Berkeley, Calif.), Stephen McKinley (Berkeley, Calif.), Matthew Matl (Fremont, Calif.), Jeffrey Mahler (Berkeley, Calif.) and Aaron Smith (Suisun City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for item sorting that can include an item selection unit with a robotic pick-and-place machine positioned adjacent to a defined input item region; an item sortation unit comprising a horizontal multi-degree-of-freedom gantry system and an item tote array, wherein the ...