US Patent Issued to Starship Technologies OU on April 22 for "Autonomous vehicle with a plurality of light sources arranged thereon" (Estonian, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,330, issued on April 22, was assigned to Starship Technologies OU (Tallinn, Estonia).

"Autonomous vehicle with a plurality of light sources arranged thereon" was invented by Kristjan Korjus (Tallinn, Estonia), Markus Zimmermann (Helsinki), Ahti Heinla (Tallinn, Estonia) and Rao Parnpuu (Tabasalu, Estonia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile robot has a body having at least one item space; a lid constructed and adapted to assume at least an open position and a closed position, wherein the lid is to fit on top of the body in the closed position, so as to cover the item space, and the lid is to be lifted to the open position, so as to...