ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,972, issued on June 30, was assigned to Telexistence Inc. (Tokyo).
"Commodity transfer apparatus and control method for same" was invented by Pavel Savkin (Tokyo) and Nathan Quinn (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a product transfer apparatus is provided. The product transfer apparatus includes an arm unit having a holder unit for holding a product, an image capture unit for obtaining image data including at least a portion of the product held by the holder unit for placing the product on a shelf plate of the product display shelf and placed above the front side of the shelf ...