US Patent Issued to Ocado Innovation on April 7 for "Controller and method for transporting devices" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,126, issued on April 7, was assigned to Ocado Innovation Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).

"Controller and method for transporting devices" was invented by Robert Stadie (Hatfield, Great Britain), Andrzej Czarny (Hatfield, Great Britain), Thomas Oliver (Hatfield, Great Britain), Gareth Siret (Hatfield, Great Britain) and Christopher Richard James Brett (Hatfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller is provided to control movement of a plurality of transporting devices. In particular, the controller provides improved robot shunting. More specifically, the controller delays the planning of a shunt path for an idle r...