ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,387, issued on April 21, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"System and method for achieving position detection integrity in an independent cart system" was invented by Patrick E. Ozimek (Elm Grove, Wis.), Yuhong Huang (Acton, Mass.), David W. Demers (Brookfield, Wis.), Brian M. Perreault (Stow, Mass.) and Daniel I. Lanier (North Billerica, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting integrity of a position for a mover in an independent cart system, includes receiving multiple first position feedback signals at a first processing core and receiving multiple seco...