ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,055, issued on May 19, was assigned to Jungheinrich AG (Hamburg, Germany).

"Logistics system, method for operating a logistics system and for transporting an industrial truck in a logistics system, upgrade kit, and computer program product" was invented by Simon Wollnack (Hamburg, Germany), Maximilian Richter (Hamburg, Germany) and Ralf Wetegrove (Norderstedt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A logistics system including: a leading truck and a following truck. The leading truck is configured for autonomous driving and the following truck is not. The leading truck includes sensors for spanning an environment monitoring region. Th...