US Patent Issued to Symbotic on Sept. 29 for "Systems and methods for flush placement of pallets by an autonomous forklift" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,142, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for flush placement of pallets by an autonomous forklift" was invented by Peter Anderson-Sprecher (Austin, Texas), Krishnan Balasubramanian (Austin, Texas) and Arun Joseph (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates, in general, to systems and methods for controlling autonomous forklifts, and specifically, for placing pallets in a flush manner with adjacent objects and obstacles, such as other pallets, walls, and structures. The present invention allows autonomous forklifts to optimize the footprint require...