ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,771, issued on May 26, was assigned to Dexterity Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Robotic system to control ingress to a robotic loader" was invented by Zhouwen Sun (San Mateo, Calif.), Michael Fisher (Palo Alto, Calif.), Robert Holmberg (Mountain View, Calif.), Harry Zhe Su (Union City, Calif.), Talbot Morris-Downing (Redwood City, Calif.), Timothy Ryan (San Francisco) and Samir Menon (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system comprising a mobile chassis, a conveyor oriented substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the chassis, one or more robotic arms disposed adjacent to the conveyor, and one or more c...