ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,560, issued on May 27, was assigned to King Abdulaziz University (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).

"System and methods for multi-robotic multi-product U-shaped disassembly line" was invented by Abdullah Abusorrah (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Hesham Alhumade (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Muhyaddin Rawa (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Yusuf Al-Turki (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Ahmed Alabdulwahab (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Aiiad Albeshri (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Xi Wang Guo (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Khaled Sedraoui (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) and MengChu Zhou (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-robotic U-shaped disassembly line, a method for disassembling...