ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,959, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).
"Automated bot with transfer arm" was invented by Stephen C. Toebes (Sunderland, Mass.) and Robert T. Sullivan (Wilmington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transporting a payload pickface, the method comprising an autonomous transport vehicle payload bed of an autonomous guided transport vehicle and providing a transfer arm disposed in the autonomous transport vehicle payload bed and defining at least a portion of the autonomous transport vehicle payload bed so that a payload pickface is seated on and stably held in the autonomous transport vehi...