US Patent Issued to TOMPKINS ROBOTICS on Sept. 15 for "Robotic vehicle navigaton system and method" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,968, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TOMPKINS ROBOTICS INC. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Robotic vehicle navigaton system and method" was invented by James M. Serstad (Orlando, Fla.), Michael C. Futch (Orlando, Fla.) and Shenghong Zhang (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System is configured to receive article information corresponding to articles to be transported by computer-controlled vehicles, the articles comprising a first article and a second article, each having a maximum article dimension. System is also configured to assign travel routes about a grid comprising grid cells for the vehicles to travel thereon. The travel ...