ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,937, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Agility Robotics Inc. (Salem, Ore.).

"Docks for legged robots and related technology" was invented by Mitchell Bernards (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Ryan Schwendeman (Albany, Ore.), Grayson Lewis (Corvallis, Ore.), Frankie Vazquez (San Francisco), Jonathan Hurst (Albany, Ore.), Mikhail Jones (Corvallis, Ore.), Andrew Abate (Albany, Ore.), Kevin Sweeney (Albany, Ore.), Frederic Hook (Albany, Ore.), Stefan Klein (Portland, Ore.) and Ryan Domres (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system in accordance with at least some embodiments of the present technology includes a robot and a dock. The ro...