ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,233, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Dexterity Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Robotic stack mover" was invented by Alberto Leyva Arvayo (Palo Alto, Calif.), Charles Richard Bieler (Los Angeles), Matthew Rodolfo Molina (San Francisco), Andrew Lovett (Burlingame, Calif.), Robert Holmberg (Mountain View, Calif.) and Cuthbert Sun (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a robotic stack mover system, and a method and a computer system for controlling the robotic stack mover system. The robotic stack mover system includes a driving unit comprising a motor, a drive chain, a tensioning unit that enfor...