US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Method for determining a direction of travel and/or a change in position and/or a speed of a driverless transport vehicle, driverless transport vehicle and driverless transport system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,963, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Method for determining a direction of travel and/or a change in position and/or a speed of a driverless transport vehicle, driverless transport vehicle and driverless transport system" was invented by Martin Kram (Gerolzhofen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a direction of travel and/or a change in position and/or a speed of a driverless transport vehicle (1), which has an optical sensor (8) directed to a ground (10), on which the driverless transport vehicle (1) is traveling, wherein a) measurement ...