US Patent Issued to Lineage Logistics on Sept. 8 for "Automatic transportation of pallets of goods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,063, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Lineage Logistics LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Automatic transportation of pallets of goods" was invented by Christopher Frank Eckman (San Francisco), Daniel Walet (Oakland, Calif.), Elliott Gerard Wolf (Oakland, Calif.), Frank Baijens (Irvine, Calif.) and Sudarsan Thattai (Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A layer pick system optimizes usage of a layer picker gantry or robotic arm by arranging and/or displacing the gantry or arm in optimal locations with respect to one or more groups of pallets, and/or by grouping pallets by their attributes and arranging the same group of ...