ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,210, issued on March 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Object transporting apparatus" was invented by Avinash Panga (Woodinville, Wash.) and Adam Morton (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for handling objects such as information technology equipment racks in an environment such as a data center. In one aspect, the apparatus includes a body having a first mount on a first interior side of the body; and second mount on a second interior side of the body and in same horizontal position as the first mount; and a lifting system comprising one or more lifting elements with one or more retra...