US Patent Issued to Dexterity on March 4 for "Robotic system to load and unload trucks and other containers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,714, issued on March 4, was assigned to Dexterity Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Robotic system to load and unload trucks and other containers" was invented by Zhouwen Sun (San Mateo, Calif.), Michael Fisher (Palo Alto, Calif.), Robert Holmberg (Mountain View, Calif.), Harry Zhe Su (Union City, Calif.), Talbot Morris-Downing (Redwood City, Calif.), Timothy Ryan (San Francisco) and Samir Menon (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system is disclosed which includes a robotic arm having n degrees of freedom, the robotic arm comprising a base and a set of serially connected links and joints connected to the base; a...