ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,388, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SEMES Co. LTD. (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

"Carriage robot and tower lift including the same" was invented by Eun Sang Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seung Keun Jun (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Hyi Jae Kang (Seoul, South Korea) and Jun Ho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carriage robot includes a robot arm being configured to transport a plurality of containers, a robot hand connected to an end of the robot arm, the robot hand being configured to support a first container having a first size among the containers, and a gripper provided under the robot hand, the gripper bein...