ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,971, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Automatic transportation control method and automatic transportation system using automatic guidance vehicle" was invented by Dong Su Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Junyeong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic transportation control method includes moving, by an automatic guidance vehicle, to a first node which is an initial reference location according to an instruction from an automatic transportation control apparatus; moving, by the automatic guidance vehicle, to a second node which is a stand-by location before ...