ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,641, issued on April 29, was assigned to Lucomm Technologies Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Robotic post" was invented by Lucian Cristache (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic post includes a memory and a processor in communication with the memory, an optical sensor, a support holder and a securable hook. The robotic post is configured to secure an item container by coupling it to the securable hook and further adjusting the support holder. An optional robotic arm manipulates items in or out the item container based on particular semantics of interest inferred based on inputs from the optical sensor."
The patent was fil...