ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,701, issued on March 25, was assigned to Yuilrobotics Co. Ltd. (Incheon, South Korea).

"7-axis multi-joint robot having horizontal movement ability" was invented by Dong Heon Kim (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a horizontally movable 7-axis multi-joint robot, including: a robot arm to which a plurality of arm units is coupled through multi-joints; a transport member, which is movable along a guide rail installed in a horizontal direction wherein the robot arm is coupled thereto; a base seated on the transport member, to which the robot arm is coupled; and a weight balancing arm pre...