ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,912, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to BEIJING GEEKPLUS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Robot" was invented by Hongbo Li (Beijing), Bin Hu (Beijing) and Langlang Sun (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot includes: a travelling apparatus, disposed at a bottom of the robot and configured to travel to a preset position; a body, disposed above the travelling apparatus; and an item picking apparatus, disposed on the body and configured to, based on a task received by the robot, pick a target item at a first position and place the target item to a second position. The item picking apparatus includes a lifting component and a teles...