ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,714, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Dexterity Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Robot informed dynamic parcel inflow gating" was invented by David Leo Tondreau III (San Francisco), Jordan Cedarleaf-Pavy (Mountain View, Calif.), Austen Poteet (San Francisco), Harshit Shah (Menlo Park, Calif.), Timothy Ryan (San Francisco), Talbot Morris-Downing (Redwood City, Calif.), Toby Leonard Baker (Redwood City, Calif.), Shitij Kumar (Redwood City, Calif.) and Rob Markota (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for controlling a gating structure to mediate a flow of it...