US Patent Issued to Dexterity on Dec. 2 for "Robotic kitting system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,061, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Dexterity Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Robotic kitting system" was invented by Samir Menon (Palo Alto, Calif.), Robert Hegdahl (Hayward, Calif.), Zhouwen Sun (Redwood City, Calif.), Kevin Jose Chavez (Palo Alto, Calif.), Talbot Morris-Downing (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Cuthbert Sun (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kitting system is disclosed. In various embodiments, the kitting system includes a conveyance structure configured to impart to an item a first net resultant force substantially in a first direction, wherein the first direction is associated with a direction of flow fr...