ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,833, issued on May 26, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Industrial mover systems and methods" was invented by Yuhong Huang (Acton, Mass.), Robert H. Schmidt (Germantown, Wis.), Maria Andrea Ruotolo (Barrie, Canada), Alexandra L. Schwertner (Cleveland), Patrick Ozimek (Mequon, Wis.) and Sinethemba S. Zulu (Johannesburg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mover system includes a track, a plurality of movers configured to move along the track, and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to receive a user input indicative of operational parameters for the mover system,...