ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,794, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co. Ltd. (Changzhou, China).

"Three-axis robot" was invented by Chongdeng Wu (Changzhou, China) and Xueyuan Zhu (Changzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a three-axis robot including a base plate, a first guiding unit extending along first direction, a first slider, a first driver driving the first slider to move along first direction, a second guiding unit extending along second direction, a second slider, a second driver driving the second slider to move along second direction, a third guiding unit extending along third direction, and the first, se...