ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,942, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage apparatus, a transfer system including the same, and a transferring method using the transfer system" was invented by Youngon Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chunghyuk You (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jihun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sanghyuk Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage apparatus includes a support part fixedly coupled to a ceiling surface, a rotating plate under the support part, a driving unit connecting the support part and the rotating plate, and a plurality of tables spaced apart from eac...