ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,213, issued on April 8, was assigned to Modology Design Group (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for unloading a structure" was invented by Mark D. Hall (Fairfield, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of unloading a structure including a plurality of linear actuators includes extending the plurality of linear actuators to support the structure on the plurality of linear actuators at a first location, retracting the plurality of linear actuators to lower the structure onto one or more crawlers, and sending instructions to the one or more crawlers, receipt of the instructions causing the one or more crawlers to tra...