ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,834, issued on April 21, was assigned to BAE Systems plc (London).
"Robotic cells" was invented by Jane Alexandra Byford (Balderstone, Great Britain), Martin Knott (Balderstone, Great Britain), Daniel James Middleton (Balderstone, Great Britain), Jake Butterworth (Preston, Great Britain) and Craig Philip Turnbull (Hawarden Flintshire Wales, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot cell, having a cell floor defining an array of nodes corresponding with a predetermined two-dimensional coordinate system and defining a volume for receiving a workpiece W therein and accessible by a human operator, is described. The robot cell...