ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,616, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BAR Automation GmbH (Gemmingen, Germany).
"Driverless transport vehicle" was invented by Ralf Bar (Gemmingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driverless transport vehicle is movable in a X, Y plane and has a lifting table that is movable in the Z direction. It includes a base unit and a lifting table arranged on a drive-under/fork unit. Two drive and guide roller units are arranged below the base unit together with a non-drivable guide roller unit. Sensor means acquire raw data with respect to a video image of the object. Object identification means convert the raw data into object pos...