ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,637, issued on May 5, was assigned to Dexterity Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Object partitioner between heterogeneous transport containers" was invented by Jonathan Kuck (Palo Alto, Calif.), Zhouwen Sun (San Mateo, Calif.), Jacopo Banfi (Allston, Mass.), Vikram Ramanathan (Menlo Park, Calif.), William Arthur Clary (Pasadena, Calif.) and Kevin Jose Chavez (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for partitioning a set of objects among a set of transport containers. The method includes (i) receiving an indication of the set of objects to be loaded into t...