US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Feb. 25 for "Autonomous modular robots and methods of use" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,541, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Autonomous modular robots and methods of use" was invented by Raj Sohmshetty (Canton, Mich.), Yifan Chen (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Kurt Lundeen (Novi, Mich.), Sanghyun Hong (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Smruti Panigrahi (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous modular robots and methods of use are disclosed herein. An example system includes a first assembly includes a first controller having a first processor that causes a first assembly support to translate along a first axis and align with a container placed on the first assembly ...