ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,301, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to HYPRLABS INC. (San Francisco).
"Multi-functional inventory storage and delivery system" was invented by Tim Kentley-Klay (San Francisco) and Aditya Narayan (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed is directed to hyper-local provisioning and delivery of goods including a depot and a transporter. Hyper-local depots are mounted above transit paths (e.g., sidewalk, parking lot, road) or on the side of or inside a building. The depots store and charge transporters, which provide robotic delivery. The depots can load transporters with goods, deploy them out of the depot ...