ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,792, issued on May 26, was assigned to Dexterity Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Containerized robotic system" was invented by Joseph Li (San Jose, Calif.), Robert Moreno (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Cuthbert Sun (San Francisco), Salvador Perez (Jersey City, N.J.), Neeraja Abhyankar (Menlo Park, Calif.), Arth Beladiya (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Kunal Vikas Shinde (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system is disclosed. The robotic system includes (i) a robotic arm positioned in a known location adjacent to a work zone with respect to which the robotic arm is configured to manipulate one or more items, (ii) one or m...