ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,483, issued on March 31, was assigned to Tessella Automation Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Modular multi-functional and reusable three-dimensional worksurface for robot automation" was invented by Nathan Roger Jones (Los Gatos, Calif.), Daniel Cong (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Rohit Raj Puri (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular, multi-functional, and reusable three-dimensional ("3D") mounting surface for use in robotic automation to facilitate changing from one robot type to another (e.g., COTS (commercial off the shelf) robot or component) is described. A change involves removing only the surface plates without the entire...