US Patent Issued to IDETIC on July 14 for "Robot for moving and de-capping collection containers" (Georgia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,969, issued on July 14, was assigned to IDETIC LLC (Chamblee, Ga.).

"Robot for moving and de-capping collection containers" was invented by Will Isaac Thomason (Chamblee, Ga.), Robert Kendall Ufford (Acworth, Ga.) and Hilario Alberto Urquieta (Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system is provided for moving and de-capping collection containers. The system can include a robotic arm having a plurality of grippers, where the plurality of grippers is configured to move a plurality of collection containers. Additionally, the system can include a decapper configured to remove a plurality of caps corresponding to ...