ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,441, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Liberty Robotics Inc. (Dexter, Mich.).

"Method and system for decanting a plurality of items supported on a transport structure at one time with a picking tool for placement into a transport container" was invented by G. Neil Haven (Clearwater, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for decanting a plurality of substantially identical target items in a topmost layer of target items supported on a transport structure at one time with a picking tool for placement into a transport container are provided. The method includes the steps of providing a ranked configuration which descri...