ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,263, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Agility Robotics Inc. (Salem, Ore.).

"Order-fulfillment system including multipurpose mobile robots and related technology" was invented by Ken McCormack (Albany, Ore.), Jay Jasper (Albany, Ore.), Jonathan Hurst (Albany, Ore.), Prasanna Velagapudi (Pittsburgh) and Bradley Hamner (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in accordance with a particular embodiment of the present technology includes implementing an order-fulfillment workflow via an order-fulfillment system including a fleet of bimanual mobile robots respectively equipped with end-effector sets. The fleet includes subfl...