ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,537, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KEONN TECHNOLOGIES S.L. (Barcelona, Spain) and UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA (Barcelona, Spain).

"Movable platform for taking inventory and/or performing other actions on objects" was invented by Ramir De Porrata-Doria I Yaguee (Barcelona, Spain), Ausias Vives Prat (Barcelona, Spain), Rafael Pous Andres (Barcelona, Spain), Victor Casamayor Pujol (Barcelona, Spain) and Bernat Gaston Braso (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A movable platform for taking inventory and/or performing other actions on objects, the movable platform comprising a traction system for allowing the movable platform ...