ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,209, issued on April 29, was assigned to COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION (Australian Capital Territory, Australia).

"Object moving system" was invented by Paul Flick (Acton, Australia), Nicholas Panitz (Acton, Australia), Peter Dean (Acton, Australia), Marc Elmouttie (Acton, Australia), Sisi Liang (Acton, Australia), Ryan Steindl (Acton, Australia), Troy Cordie (Acton, Australia) and Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay (Acton, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for moving an object within an environment, wherein the system includes at least one modular wheel configured to move the object. The modular w...