ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,275, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Apparatus for moving a payload" was invented by Swaminathan Vangal Ramamurthy (Singapore), Rajaram Jayaraman (Singapore), Pragaasam Ramalingam (Singapore) and Raja Nagarajan (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for moving a payload, comprising: a driving mechanism; a lifting device; one or more load bearing surfaces, and a central wall, a first side wall and a second side wall that are arranged to form a boundary defining a space for residing the lifting device; an attachment mechanism mounted to the lifting device; and a processor configured to op...