ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,382, issued on March 18, was assigned to Rightbot Technologies Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Unloading robots" was invented by Abhinav Warrier (Maharashtra, India), Anurag Dutta (New Delhi), Akash Singh (Telangana, India) and Vivek Bhagat (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system includes a mobile base assembly and a lifting assembly. The lifting assembly includes wedge blocks, each of which is pivotably connected to a front edge of the mobile base assembly and pivotable along a hinge axis. During an operation of the robotic system, at least a portion of the wedge blocks may be slid under the boxes to lift the bo...