ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,353, issued on May 20, was assigned to Built Robotics Inc. (San Francisco).

"Pile platforms for autonomous pile driver vehicle" was invented by Noah Austen Ready-Campbell (San Francisco), Andrew Xiao Liang (San Francisco) and Gaurav Jitendra Kikani (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous off-road vehicle (AOV) includes a vehicle body, and a first platform and second platform configured to carry one or more piles for transport by the AOV. The first platform and second platform are coupled to opposite sides of the vehicle body. A base of each of the first platform and the second platform is angled upwards and away f...