US Patent Issued to Nimble Robotics on June 16 for "Robotic storage and retrieval systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,935, issued on June 16, was assigned to Nimble Robotics Inc. (San Francisco).

"Robotic storage and retrieval systems" was invented by Simon Kalouche (San Francisco), Yeolim Jo (San Francisco), Matthew Shekels (Daly City, Calif.), Mike Stevens (Redwood City, Calif.) and Christopher McQuin (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot includes a body coupled to a wheel assembly and a container retrieval device. The wheel assembly has a plurality of wheels and a drive mechanism arranged to move the body along a first set of parallel rails and along a second set of parallel rails. The container retrieval device includes a...