ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,278, issued on July 29, was assigned to WISTRON CORP. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Pick and place apparatus and transporting machine" was invented by haikang Du (New Taipei, Taiwan), Baichang Cen (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yu Tao (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chunying Zhang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Yucheng Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pick and place apparatus, adapted for a carrier, includes a housing connected to the carrier, a lifting assembly movably disposed on the housing, and a pick and place assembly movably disposed on the lifting assembly. A movable direction of the pick and place assembly relative to the lifting as...