ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,222, issued on June 24, was assigned to Roy Kaner (Rehovot, Israel).

"Climbing wall in which the climbing route is changed by an automated mechanism" was invented by Roy Kaner (Rehovot, Israel), Tamir Levy-Aldema (Modiln, Israel) and Ilan Matan Hurwitz (Rishon LeZion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising multiple climbing holds and a robot having an end-effector, the end-effector adapted to be detachably connected to each of the multiple climbing holds. A controller adapted to instruct the robot and/or the end-effector to select one of the multiple climbing holds from a carrying medium. Grab a selected climbi...