ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,074, issued on May 20, was assigned to Dexterity Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Robot carriage tray table" was invented by Justin Sunjoon Kim (Cupertino, Calif.), Andrew Lovett (Burlingame, Calif.), Alberto Leyva Arvayo (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shitij Kumar (Redwood City, Calif.), Cyril Nader (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Yuan Gao (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A task table for use in a robotic system comprising a robot mounted on a carriage configured to move the robot along a path is disclosed. The task table includes a substantially horizontal table surface, and one or more mounting arms to which the table surface is a...