ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,039, issued on June 23, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Transport system" was invented by Bas van den Heuvel (Wijnandsrade, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport system has a transport vehicle comprising a load area having a load surface on which a plurality of rack units of the transport system can be arranged one behind the other in a vehicle longitudinal direction and can be either locked in position or displaced in the vehicle longitudinal direction, whereby an accessible intermediate space can be produced between two adjacent rack units. In order to enhance improve the effective ...