ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,069, issued on May 19, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Automated guided vehicle and control method for automated guided system including the same" was invented by Yonggu Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Sanghoon Ji (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a control method for an automated guided system including a step of providing an automated guided vehicle including a sensor and a watchdog timer, a controller, and an alarm, an initializing step of initializing a count value, a first checking step of checking an abnormal state of the sensor, a count increasing step of inc...