US Patent Issued to Vecna Robotics on May 6 for "System and method of providing a robotic retrieval system in a vehicle for use in delivering items" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,333, issued on May 6, was assigned to Vecna Robotics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"System and method of providing a robotic retrieval system in a vehicle for use in delivering items" was invented by Daniel Theobald (Somerville, Mass.) and Siddharth Ram Chhatpar (Winchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a vehicle having a platform, a linear slide configured on the platform, a robotic retrieval system configured on the linear slide, a shelf configured adjacent to the linear slide and a control system that controls a reception of a first item and a second item by the robotic retrieval system and a placement ...