ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,833, issued on June 30, was assigned to ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method, apparatus and system for AGV movement control" was invented by Yaodong Ni (Shanghai), Xuan Cao (Shanghai) and Dong Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, devices, systems, and a computer readable medium for controlling an automatic guided vehicle (AGV). In some embodiments of the method, a first load identifier is determined at a first location on a predetermined trajectory of the AGV. The first load identifier represents a first load condition at the first location. A first set of values o...