US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on March 31 for "Robotic handling system for high priority items" (Illinois, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,839, issued on March 31, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Robotic handling system for high priority items" was invented by Anders Gustafsson (Lincolnshire, Ill.), Edward Barkan (Miller Place, N.Y.), Darran Michael Handshaw (Sound Beach, N.Y.) and Joseph Cabana (Centereach, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for controlling a mobile robot to escort high priority items are disclosed herein. An example mobile robot includes an electronically securable storage compartment electronically controllable between a stored state and an accessible state. The example mobile robot further includes a user...