ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,121, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Dexterity Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Robotically-controlled structure to regulate item flow" was invented by Jordan Cedarleaf-Pavy (Mountain View, Calif.), Austen Poteet (San Francisco), Timothy Ryan (San Francisco), David Leo Tondreau III (San Francisco), Adam Kell (Millbrae, Calif.) and Harshit Shah (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system is disclosed. The system includes a communication interface, and one or more processors coupled to the communication interface and configured to: receive, via the communication interface, data associated with a plurality of items...