ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,569, issued on April 14, was assigned to Hexagon Metrology Inc. (North Kingstown, R.I.).
"Recessed drawer opening apparatus" was invented by Jie Zheng (North Kingstown, R.I.), Gregory Klein (East Greenwich, R.I.), Jonathan J. O'Hare (East Greenwich, R.I.) and Jonathan Dove (Woodstock, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drawer opening system includes a hitch on a robot arm, and a block assembly disposed within a cavity on an external face of a first drawer, such that the hitch is configured to approach the external face of the drawer, enter the recess, and securely engage the block assembly within the cavity. In illustrative embod...