ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,223, issued on May 12, was assigned to Siemens Industry Software Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Method and system for allocating an AGV vehicle in a plant location" was invented by Moshe Hazan (Elad, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and a method control and allocate an automated guided vehicle (AGV) at a plant location of a plant. An order generator is enabled to be configured with an anticipating logical rule whose conditional statement includes a set of anticipating plant status conditions whose fulfillment causes the order generator to send to a fleet manager a corresponding AGV dummy transport order. The AGV dummy transpor...