ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,564, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to STILL GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Transport robot and method and system for operating a transport robot in a warehouse" was invented by Volker Viereck (Kuhsen, Germany) and Tino Krueger-Basjmeleh (Halstenbek, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport robot is used to carry out transport orders for transport of goods in a warehouse with a plurality of transport robots. The transport robot includes a communication interface configured to receive an environment model of the warehouse and a capability model of the plurality of transport robots. The environment model defines a plurality of key ...