ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,294, issued on May 26, was assigned to Brookhurst Garage Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Warehouse location numbering conversion for aerial inventory drone" was invented by Soon Hac Hong (San Jose, Calif.) and Young Joon Kim (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic control system may be configured to translate a first set of location coordinates based on a first location numbering system to a second set of location coordinates based on a unified location numbering system. A robotic control system may receive layout data of a warehouse, the layout data containing a plurality of location coordinates of racks and storage loca...