ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,613, issued on June 24, was assigned to THE REINALT-THOMAS Corp. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Robotic apparatus interaction with vehicle based on vehicle dimension translation" was invented by Bradley Vargo (White Lake, Mich.), Keegan Elliott (Marshall, Mich.), Nathan Butler (Westland, Mich.), William Mapes (Grosse Ille Township, Mich.), Victor Darolfi (Canton, Mich.), Scott Coburn (Howell, Mich.) and Riyadir Alalami (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicle dimension data describing dimensions of a vehicle are obtained, a robotic apparatus is moved to a position about the vehicle, a reference point of the vehicle is determined, a...