US Patent Issued to Serve Operating on July 8 for "Self sanitizing storage of a delivery robot" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,392, issued on July 8, was assigned to Serve Operating Co. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Self sanitizing storage of a delivery robot" was invented by David Gillespie (Los Angeles), Colin Janssen (Vancouver, Canada), Sean Plaice (San Francisco), Aaron Leiba (Los Angeles) and Ali Haghighat Kashani (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery robot includes a cargo bin to carry cargo for delivery, and a door coupled to the cargo bin. The door to the cargo bin has an open state to allow access to an interior of the cargo bin, and a closed state to seal the interior of the cargo bin from an exterior environment. The delivery robot a...