ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,907, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to BAE Systems plc (London).
"Robotic cells" was invented by Austin James Cook (Balderstone, Great Britain), Daniel James Middleton (Balderstone, Great Britain), Martin Knott (Balderstone, Great Britain), Eric William Veitch (Balderstone, Great Britain), Simon Cheetham (Preston, Great Britain) and Craig Philip Turnbull (Hawarden 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, is described. The robot cell com...