ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,521, issued on June 30, was assigned to ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS INC. (Indianapolis).
"Distribution system and method for distributing carriers" was invented by Edwin Oosterbroek (Cham, Switzerland) and Nicolas Seungoon Sillitoe (Allenwinden, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distribution system is disclosed. The distribution system comprises a transport plane comprising logical positions, carriers for transporting objects, a drive system to move the carriers on the transport plane between logical positions, a control system configured for controlling the carriers to move on a planned route from a start position to a f...