ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,938, issued on July 14, was assigned to Plus One Robotics Inc. (San Antonio).

"Automated multi-arm robotic system" was invented by Paul Hvass (San Antonio), Matthew Henry Churchill (San Antonio) and Christopher Naville (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyance system includes an in-feed conveyor for conveying a high density flow of a plurality of parcels. The system further includes a first pick conveyor configured for being selectively activated and deactivated in order to space out the plurality of parcels and turn the high density flow into a low density flow of parcels. A second pick conveyor is in series with and ...