ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,805, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to WILDER SYSTEMS INC. (Austin, Texas).

"Auto-locating and locking movable gantry system" was invented by William Wilder (Austin, Texas) and Eugene Won Kim (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to system for auto-docking a robot to jig holding an airplane part to execute a job. In an example, a robot is tasked with performing an operation associated with an airplane part held by or affixed to a jig. To do so, the robot may utilize sensor input from associated sensors to identify the jig, the airplane part, and determine a particular template associated with t...