US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung on Sept. 15 for "Method for changing the position of cargo located on a cargo receptacle of a driverless transport vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,967, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V. (Munich).

"Method for changing the position of cargo located on a cargo receptacle of a driverless transport vehicle" was invented by Jan Soeren Emmerich (Munich), Dirk Hoening (Munich), Patrick Klokowski (Munich), Christian Hammermeister (Munich), Michael Ten Hompel (Munich), Jan Behling (Munich) and Mathias Rotgeri (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for changing the position of cargo located on a cargo receptacle of a driverless transport vehicle, the drive of the transport vehicle is controlled by a vehic...