US Patent Issued on Oct. 27 for "Two-dimensional conveyor system with crossing squares" (New Zealander, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,160, issued on Oct. 27.

"Two-dimensional conveyor system with crossing squares" was invented by John G. Gorman (Del Mar, Calif.) and John W. Gorman (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Conventional conveyance systems (e.g., for warehouses) require robotic drive units, which each comprises complex and expensive on-board computer hardware, software, sensing systems, and batteries that need to be periodically recharged. Disclosed embodiments centralize the intelligence into a controller that controls pinions in the crossing squares of a two-dimensional conveyance system. The controller drives the pinions to engage with ...